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CANTON. NEW YORK 
1909 




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Copyright. 1908, 

By GEORGE R. HARDIE 



LIBRARY of CONGRESS 
Two CoDies Received 

APR 28 1809 

CLASS U. XXc. No, 
COPY B. * 



PREFACE 

THIS book is designed, as its name implies, to give informa- 
tion to those who desire suggestions as to where to go in 
the Adirondacks and on Lake George and Lake Champlain. It 
also deals with certain features of the region attention to which 
seems likely to add to the pleasure of a sojourn there. 

The Publisher has tried to make discriminating state- 
ments and to give real information. He believes that the claims 
made herein by hotels or on their behalf are justified by facts 
and that readers may confidently expect to find what is promised. 
He will, on his part, be grateful if readers will mention this 
book in writing to advertisers. 

Appreciative recognition is here made of the work of the 
Reverend W. H. H. Murray, Mr. E. R. Wallace, Mr. S. R. 
Stoddard, and other pioneers in the publication of books about 
the Adirondacks. The chapters in this book on the Animals of 
the Adirondacks, the Birds of the Adirondacks, the Flora of 
the Adirondacks, and the Keene Valley Region were written by 
Mrs. Hardie. To the New York State Museum and the Forest, 
Fish and Game Commission is due acknowledgment of in- 
debtedness for information contained in their publications, and to 
the former for courteous permission to reproduce certain illustra- 
tions which have appeared in their annual reports. 

Of valuable assistance on account of which the Publisher 
has been placed under obligation to many others he would ex- 
press so far as possible his grateful appreciation. 



THE ADIRONDACKS 




HE entire Adirondack region embraces about 3,500,000 
acres. On the south and west are the less conspicuous 
heights and some of the be^ known lakes with the 
resorts that have grown up around them. On the 
ea^ are the highest peaks and mo^ picturesque 
scenery. The highest mountain in the group is Marcy, 
with an elevation of 5,344 feet. By nearly every 
mountain is a lake. In fadt, within a short di^ance 
from almost any point a sheet of water may be found. 
If the smaller ponds be reckoned, there are perhaps 
upwards of two thousand lakes and ponds. 

The Adirondack region is one of great importance in many respects. 
Its forests are fundamentally necessary to the maintenance of the rivers which 
have their source in this territory. Its timber has long contributed to the main- 
tenance of important industries and still does so. Enlightened self interest, as 
well as public spirit, has for some time prompted more conservative methods 
in dealing with this important asset than were formerly in vogue. The 
Adirondack Preserve owned by the State included January 1 , 1 908, a 
total of 1,438,999 acres. 

To most persons the Adirondacks are best known as providing a place 
for recreation or benefit to health. Owing to the stimulating quality of the air 
consequent upon the high altitude, a sense of invigoration comes to the 
visitor from the time of his arrival from a lower level. Although one is not 
likely to want to rest while there, he may count on coming out refreshed 
after even a short stay. The purity of the air, together with the curative 
properties which it derives from the evergreen forests, makes this region a 
place mo^ advantageous to persons afflicted with pulmonary troubles. 

Hunting and fishing furnish recreation for sportsmen. The wonder- 
ful scenery may be enjoyed everywhere and by all. It is estimated that two 
hundred thousand persons or more visit the region each summer. Figures 
compiled in 1903 showed over ten million dollars then invested in hotels, 
camps, and other buildings. This wide region and these extensive provisions 
for the reception of visitors afford opportunities of enjoyment sufficiently 
varied to satisfy the mo^ diverse inclinations. There are places where social 
gaiety with ample arrangements for comfort and entertainment are found, 
and there are other places of every style between these and the open camp 
where one so inclined may be as a rule miles from sound of any human 
voice beside his own. 

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GEOLOGY OF THE ADIRONDACKS 

HE formation of the earth's crust has been a gradual process; 
some parts of it have only recently taken on their present 
form, other parts went through the formative period in the 
remote past. In two senses the Adirondacks are old moun- 
tains. The rocks which form the greater part of the region 
are in substance among the oldest known. Agam, as a re- 
sult of eroding forces at work through a long period, the Adirondack Moun- 
tains have been worn down to a smoothly rounded outline quite unlike the 
jagged peaks of such mountains as the Matterhorn in Switzerland, which are 
of more recent origin and have not been subject for so long a time to 
leveling tendencies. 

A large part of the rocks of the Adirondack region are, in spite of 
their great age, of sedimentary origin. In seme far distant aeon of which 
our imagination can discern but faintest glimpses through the obscurity that 
hides the early stages of creation, apparently the great primeval ocean dashed 
upon the shores of a rocky island in what is now the Adirondack region. 
In course of time this rocky elevation was gradually battered and worn 
away by the disintegrating forces of the waves and the elements, and the 
detritus washed out to sea was scattered on the floor of the ocean. This 
in turn became sedimentary rock of the Grenville series. Later it was sub- 
jected to enormous pressure by great thickness of rock subsequently de- 
posited and its original structure much changed. 

Along with Igneous rock almost certainly of later origin extruded from 
beneath, is found other igneous rock which may represent the basic forma- 
tion upon which the metamorphic rock described above was deposited. 
That type of rock is found widely throughout Essex and southern Franklin 
counties. The two classes of Precambrian rock here described, which 
may be assumed to underlie the whole region and which form the mass of 
the mountains in their present form, are the oldest rocks found here and are 
also representative of the oldest rocks in the crust of the earth. Substantially 
all the rocks in the main region of the Adirondacks, excepting comparatively 
recent surface deposit, belong to that oldest of geologic periods, probably 
even to an early stage in the period, and furthermore it is estimated that the 
period as a whole covers possibly one-half the entire extent of time em- 
braced in the geologic history of the earth. 

An upheaval next raised these Precambrian rocks into ridges above 
the level of the adjacent sea, where they were again subjected to erosion 

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by which the surface was greatly lowered. A period of depression of 
this part of the earth's crust marks the beginning of the Palaeozoic Age. 
This movement was most pronounced on the northeast and permitted the 
sea to encroach upon the land for some distance on that side. Over the 
area thus covered by the water the Potsdam sandstone was deposited. De- 
pression extended farther toward the southwest, and the Beekmantown and 
Chazy limestones were successively laid down. During a later part of this 
movement the sea entered on the south and west, again forming an Ad- 
irondack island or perhaps an unbroken sea under which the highest peaks 
were submerged, and the Lowville, the Black River and the Trenton lime- 
stones, and the Utica shale were formed. This series of rocks belongs to 
the Lower Silurian. (See illustration on page 7.) Whether the latter mem- 
bers of the group once covered the whole region cannot now be said, ow- 
ing to the extent to which erosion has taken place since these formations 
were elevated above sea level. None of the Lower Silurian rocks are 
found m the Adirondack region, except in isolated patches, and the as- 
sumed previous wide distribution is inferred from evidences on the outskirts 
of the region. 

During Mesozoic and Cenozoic time, successive changes of elevation 
accompanied by violent fracftures took place, and the rock on one side of 
a fradture dropped below that on the other, sometimes to the depth of several 
hundred feet. These faults are especially common in the eastern part of the 
Adirondacks, and the drop is usually toward the ea^. Also on the ea^ 
there are numerous single peaks, "monadnocks," which resided erosion and 
remained at a greater elevation than the heights around them. In the 
southwe^ the mountains are now mo^ly long, comparatively level ridges,— 
their trend prevailingly northea^ and southwe^. In the northea^ are iso- 
lated peaks or broken ridges of varying degrees of elevation. 

The la^ great modifying activity in the hi^ory of the region occurred 
in the Glacial Epoch. Before the beginning of that division of time the 
mountains had attained sub^antially their present form. The broad outlines 
of the main features were then as they are now. The Glacial Epoch 
appears to have been an era characterized by radical changes in climatic 
conditions, which brought down from the region of Labrador a great ice 
sheet which, moving to the southwest, overspread the whole northeastern 
part of the United States. This glacier caused erosion producing, among 
other striking results, great amphitheaters scooped out in mountain sides and 
adjacent basins in the level, often occupied by lakes. (See page 1 4.) 

But the most noticeable and widespread results of glacial action are of 
another sort. The ice sheet imbedded in its mass and carried along in its 

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course debris which it picked up on the way. When changed conditions 
caused the southern margin of the ice sheet to recede, the melting ice re- 
leased the foreign material which it held. Boulders, — often much rubbed 
and worn — gravel, and sand were thus scattered over the region which the 
glacier had traversed. At times the southern margin remained stationary 
for a considerable period, and in such places extensive ridges known as 
moraines would accumulate. A striking example is Cobblestone Hill, near 
West Chazy, in Clinton County. (See page 9.) 

Watercourses naturally follow the lines of depression. The period of 
glacial drift modified previous channels. Some were made deeper, others 
were blocked or turned aside by deposit of sediment. In that way new 
lakes were formed, and old lakes were forced to find new outlets. Rivers 
and lakes have been gradually adjusting themselves to new conditions and 
are still doing so. The principal results of present river action are the wear- 
ing away of shore lines and the gradual filling up of lake and river bottoms 
with sediment carried from other places. The decay of organic matter often 
accelerates action of the last named kind. 

The map on the opposite page shows the principal water courses of 
the Adirondack? and the general direction of the drainage in the various 
sections. The following key gives the significance of the letters and figures 
on the map: 

Lakes: I Raquette; 2 Long; 3 Tupper; 4 Ne-ha-sa-ne; 5 Cran- 
berry; 6 Upper Saranac; 7 St. Regis; 8 Rainbow; 9 Placid; I Schroon. 

Places: a Malone; h Lake Clear Jet.; C Saranac Lake; d Lake 
Placid; e Saranac Inn; / Tupper Lake; g Axton; h Keene Valley. 

Mountains: m Whiteface; n Marcy (Tahawus); O Seward; p Boot 
Bay; q St. Regis. 

THE INDIANS IN THE ADIRONDACKS 

HE Indians whose settlements were in New York State were 
of the Iroquois nation. The original home of this people wa: 
apparently in Canada, where they were subject to an Algonquin 
race, the Adirondacks. So far as we know the last named tribe 
never dwelt, at any rate continuously, as might be inferred, in 
the region to which also their name has been given. The word is 
said to have signified "eaters of trees" and was apparently given in derision 
to this race, once proud, but later humiliated by its former subjects. At 
some time previous to the appearance of white men in New York State, 

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RivF.RS OF The Adikonuacks 



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the Iroquois, having been harshly treated by the Algonquins, migrated from 
Canada and, according to tradition, entered the region south of Lake 
Ontario and settled in the neighborhood around the Oswego River. 

These immigrants increased in numbers and in course of time divided 
into five tribes, the Senecas, Cayugas, Onondagas, Oneidas, and Mohawks, 
whose settlements lay from west to east in the order named. After a con- 
siderable period (it may be about a hundred years before the appearance 
of white men in that region ), these tribes formed for mutual assistance a con- 
federacy which they called Ho-de-no-sau-ne, the Long House. This coali- 
tion became so powerful in war that it rapidly extended its sway over the 
Algonquin tribes to the Mississippi on the west and the Carolinas on the 
south. It in its turn almost brought to destruction its ancient oppressors, the 
Adirondacks. The numbers of the Iroquois, however, were never large. 
Probably the whole nation when most numerous (about the middle of the 
seventeenth century) did not number over 25,000. They were regularly 
enemies of the French and friends of the Dutch and English. 

The Adirondack region was in the territory of the Mohawks. Their 
district was bounded on the east by Lake Champlain, from the southern end 
of which ran a boundary line that crossed the Mohawk River just west of 
Schenectady and reached to the Susquehanna. Their western boundary 
ran north across the Mohawk near the site of Herkimer and, following the 
present line of the Mohawk and Malone Division of the New York Central 
Railroad about as far as Fulton Chain, from there ran approximately due 
north to the St. Lawrence River. 

The Indians preferred for settlements level, fertile land that was easy of 
cultivation. The Adirondack region was for them only a hunting ground or 
place of warfare against their northern Algonquin foes. They called it 
Cough-sa-ra-ge, the dismal wilderness. When they had occasion to 
sojourn there, their camps were ordinarily placed on the banks of shallow 
rivers or lakes. But at such temporary dwelling places there are now but 
scant evidences of their presence. In a paper on the Aboriginal Occupa- 
tion of New York in one of the New York State Museum Reports, Mr. 
Herbert M. Lloyd, a high authority on this subject, is quoted as saying, 
"I have examined the shores of a number of Adirondack lakes with only 
negative results, excepting in the cases of Lakes Piseco, Pleasant, Sacan- 
daga (usually called Round Lake) and Indian Lake." Relics have been 
found, however, in various places, notably in Essex county. 

Survivors of the St. Regis tribe, a mixed race, live on a reservation at 
St. Regis, in Franklin County. They were taken into the Iroquois con- 
federacy not long ago, to supply the place of the Mohawks. 

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ANIMALS OF THE ADIRONDACKS 

HE Important large animals that now exist, or have existed in 
historic times, in the Adirondacks are the red deer, black 
bear, elk, and moose. The red deer and the black bear 
are the only large animals remaining in considerable numbers. 
Since the recent passing of stricter game laws, the red deer 
have been on the increase. They are, in fact, so numerous 
no means an uncommon sight. Near almost any of the re- 
sorts there are places where one can watch for them to come to drink or 
feed on lily pads in the late afternoon. They are more likely to be seen in 
early summer, for later they seek more retired drinking places. I have come 
upon four at one time standing in the water of the upper Grass River. 
Near Saranac Inn there is a large private deer park where it gives almost 
as much delight to see the pretty creatures as it does to meet them wild in 
the forest. It is an ideal place for them, a spruce forest rising out of a 
swamp through which flow brooks of clear water. 

Many dollars have been paid in bounties for the extermination of the 
black bear, but considerable numbers still exist. The state paid the last 
bounty for bears in 1894, and it was estimated in 1901 that there were 
then over one thousand of them in the Adirondacks. There is not the 
slightest need of fear on their account, for they flee the approach of man and 
only under the most pressing necessity will they show fight. Besides, they 
are rarely met with near inhabited places. In fact, there is a growing senti- 
ment in favor of protecting them, as furnishing a desirable and characteristic 
zest to the life of the wilderness. The damage which they cause is for the 
most part limited to minor depredations on the farms of the settlements. 

The moose (Alces americaniis) is strictly speaking an elk, though 
never so called in this country. The animal which we call elk, or wapiti 
(Cervus canadensis), belongs to the deer family. It is much to be re- 
gretted that the elk and moose, which formerly were numerous in the Ad- 
irondacks became exterminated. The State is now making praise-worthy 
and costly attempts to reintroduce them. If the effort is successful, the charm 
of the region will be much enhanced by the presence of the majestic elk 
and the mighty moose. The elk makes a superb picture as he stands on a 
jutting crag with the sky for background or in a glade which breaks the 
forest at the shore of some secluded lake. The elk was exterminated about 
the beginning of the nineteenth century, but the moose existed until the early 
sixties. 

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The undertaking to restock the Adirondacks with these animals will be 
attended by difficulties, but there is apparently good reason to expect suc- 
cess, because they were once natives of this part of the country. To the 
owners of private parks, as well as to the State, thanks are due for public 
service in this movement. It is likely that it is in the private parks, for in- 
stance that of Mr. Edward H. Litchfield, that these animals will first be 
successfully established. The first elk to be released were the twenty-two 
selected by Mr. William C. Whitney from his herd near Lenox, Massa- 
chusetts, and given to New York State. These animals were liberated at 
Forked Lake Carry, near the boundary of the Whitney preserve, in June, 
1901. In I 906 twenty-six elk were donated to the State by Mr. Austin 
Corbin, from his forest park in New Hampshire. Seventeen of these were re- 
leased on State land in Essex county, four were released in Warren county, 
and the remaining five on Tongue Mountain, on the west shore of Lake 
George. The elk have been increasing satisfactorily and are beginning to 
range over wide areas. Their estimated number at the beginning of 1 908 
was four hundred twenty-five. It was due to the efforts of an association 
of sportsmen in New York, organized chiefly by Mr. H. V. Radford, editor 
of Woods and Waters, that the Price bill was introduced into the 
Legislature and became a law providing an appropriation of $5000 for the 
purchase of moose and an appropriation for their protection as well. The 
price of a moose varies from $100 to $150. The elk is more difficult to 
establish than the moose, for he is not fond of feeding upon the leaves and 
lily pads, as are the deer and moose, but prefers succulent grasses. However, 
in spite of this fact, the elk now outnumber the moose, for some of the mcose 
first introduced were killed on the start, and as yet the reintroduction of the 
moose has not been carried out on so large a scale as that of the elk. 

The beaver, while comparatively small, is extremely interesting from his 
habits of cutting trees and building dams and is of great value as a fur bear- 
ing animal. For a long time it was popularly supposed to be extinct m 
New York State, but Mr. Radford maintains that there has been no time 
when there have not been at least a few stragglers left. He estimates that 
at the coming of the white man in 1 609 there were a million beavers in 
Northern New York. Then the Indians were lured by the white fur- 
traders and began to slaughter the beaver recklessly. When the fashion 
of the beaver hat was established m 1 663, the destruction of the beaver in- 
creased and continued to be excessive down to the beginning of the nine- 
teenth century. Early in that century the discovery of a fur called nutria, 
which made a good imitation of beaver, and somewhat later the substitution 
of the silk hat for the beaver hat, served to decrease the enormous slaughter 

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of these rodents. However, the number of beaver continued to decrease 
until in 1850 Mr. Radford estimates there were only seventy-five in the 
Adirondacks, and, as he thinks, in the winter of 1 894-95 the original stock 
of beavers in this region had reached its lowest number, not more than five 
or ten remaining. These had their home near Saranac Inn. The beaver 
would at that time have surely become extinct had net the State taken 
vigorous measures to save the survivors. Gratitude is due Mr. Radford for 
a more effective law towards their preservation as well as for energetic efforts 
to restore them. The beaver is so prolific that the numbers began to in- 
crease even before others were introduced. But soon private individuals, 
Mr. Edward H. Litchfield, Mr. Timothy L. Woodruff, and Mr. George 
A. Stevens, began to add fresh stock. The beavers have traveled and 
widely extended their range, and their number at the beginning of 1 908 
was estimated to be about one hundred. If the people will co-operate 
with the State, the beaver ought soon to become once more abundant. 

An extremely common animal in the Adirondacks is the porcupine. If 
anything eatable is left outside of a camp at night, a porcupine is sure to prowl 
around and devour it. Sometimes in the daytime he is to be seen asleep 
clinging to the limb of a tree. He is valuable neither from an economical 
standpoint nor as a picturesque feature. The red squirrels, however, which 
frequent the region in large numbers are attractive as they scurry from tree 
to tree or chatter from their perch overhead. The gray squirrels though 
present are not so numerous. Mink, otter, and muskrat are valuable for their 
fur and are found in the lakes and streams. Red foxes, raccoons, hares, 
rabbits, martens, and weasels are found by the hunters, but they usually 
keep away from the common roads and trails. 

In the wildest part of the Adirondacks there is still found an occasional 
wolf to excite the hunter, but they are practically exterminated, and we 
cannot wish them back. It is reported that traces of wolves were seen in 
the fall of I 908. There was a time when these prowlers were so numerous 
as to be dreaded, but since the State offered a bounty for them in 1871, 
they have fast disappeared. The wolf did not wait to go gradually, but for 
some mysterious reason became suddenly scarce at just the time when the 
bounty was offered, and few were killed. The lynx or wildcat and panther, 
too, are believed to be practically, if not quite, extinct. If there are a few 
left, they are found only in most secluded fastnesses. 



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BIRDS OF THE ADIRONDACKS 




LTHOUGH it is true, as is frequently stated, that one should 
not look for birds in the deep forest, do not be deceived into 
thinking that you will find no birds in the Adirondacks. Mo^ 
of the Adirondack resorts which the ordinary observer visits 
have been open long enough and have cultivated spaces suffi- 
cient to attract the birds, and the bird enthusiast may add to 
the other delights of the woods the pleasure of watching the birds. I think 
it likely that, while the number of species of birds represented in the Adi- 
rondacks is great, the number in each species may be smaller than in some 
of their more favored haunts. However, there are certain birds that even 
seem especially characteristic of this region. 

Who has ever been in the Adirondacks without seeing the juncos, 
nuthatches, and chickadees? Even upon the sides and tops of high moun- 
tains, where animal life is so noticeably meager, one is almost sure to see 
the chickadees. Other birds that 1 have seen on mountain tops are the 
chimney swifts, red-eyed and yellow-throated vireos, white-throated spar- 
rows, and some woodpeckers; and as I have sat on the barren rocks of one 
of the rounded peaks, a hawk has swooped about my head, apparently un- 
mindful of my presence. It is, m fact, common on mountain tops to see 
hawks circling in the air, particularly in August. I have noticed with 
Burroughs that August is the month of hawks. The song of the thrushes 
is naturally connected with the charm of secluded spots. Deep woods are 
the natural haunt of these birds, and their liquid notes are particularly 
beautiful m the silent forests. 

Other characteristic birds of the wilderness are the blue jay, kingfisher, 
catbird, cedar waxwing, American osprey, and great blue heron. One 
does not need to go to the cultivated places to see these birds. Along the 
Raquette River, where there are no permanent camps for miles, I have seen 
the blue jays and heard their harsh cries. By secluded creeks and around 
the shores of lakes and ponds, the kingfisher sits on a bare, stiff, over-hang- 
ing branch and watches for prey. If he doesn't see any, he gives his 
peculiar rattle and darts on to another branch. Then, while you watch him, 
perhaps, as he crosses a bay, he will hold himself by a quivering motion sus- 
pended in mid air and suddenly dive head first with a great splash and come 
up with a fish. From the denser foliage of alders along these same water- 
ways frequently comes the whine of the catbird. Sometimes this bird is 
almost indiscernible to the eye, when the ear can trace it to the bush m 

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which it is hiding. Although of an unobtrusive gray color, it is a beautiful 
bird. It is also no mean songster, having a very pleasing vs^arble of some 
length. The catbird makes many successful attempts to mimic other birds 
and for this habit is known as the northern mockingbird. The cedar wax- 
wing is also a beautiful bird of sober coloring. The waxwings often go m 
flocks and settle together in a single tree, where they will sit motionless for a 




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considerable time and almost silent. They have no song, but make a peculiar 
fine, msect-like sound. The American osprey and great blue heron are 
comparatively large, so that when present they add to the picturesqueness 
of a view. The osprey is the largest of the hawks, a magnificent bird 
when mounted, showing a spread of wings five feet from tip to tip. It is 
usually observed floating from a considerable height in smaller and smaller 
descending circles above the water, until at last it suddenly strikes for a fish 
with a direct plunge. Sometimes it floats about in circles, apparently look- 
ing for prey, and not finding it at first, starts a new series of circles. It is 
fascinating to watch the movements of this hawk. The great blue heron is 
fully as picturesque as the osprey and is, I think, found in greater numbers in 
this region. Often more than one are seen at a time. The blue herons are 

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more gray than blue in color; however, m certain lights they give a blue 
effect. Whenever boating along shallow, plant-grown water, one is almo^ 
sure to see now and then a heron rising from the border growth of reeds or 
flying above and oddly stretching out its long legs behind. 

The woodpeckers are particularly noticeable from their size and num- 
bers and from the noise they make m hammering their bills againS the trees. 
The large black pileated woodpecker with red crest can be seen here, 
though it does not frequent the more open parts of New York State. The 
cuckoos too, which in many places are rare, are also seen here. The white- 
throated sparrow, mentioned above, is one of the most common birds of the 
great woods. Anyone can easily learn to know it by its song, which is 
always the same, unless somewhat shortened. It is often spoken of as the 
Peabody bird, the latter part of its song being likened to the words. Pea- 
body, Peabody, Peabody. The sparrow family is represented in this 
region by several other species. And one will not fail to find here the brown 
creeper, the tip-up or spotted sandpiper, the little kinglets and wrens, the 
tiny humming-bird, the brilliant scarlet tanager and beautiful rose-breasted 
grosbeak, several flycatchers, swallows, blackbirds, finches, and many species 
of warblers. Even in August I have seen six varieties of warblers within 
sight at the same time. One of the most common and most attractive of 
these is the redstart. 

The sportsman will take more interest in the wild ducks, snipe, wood- 
cock, and particularly in the ruffed grouse, or partridge, as it is locally called. 

Of the birds with peculiar cries, one of the most interesting is the 
loon, whose note is not unlike the sound of mocking laughter. It is a 
beautiful water bird and has the habit of diving to come up again at an 
unexpected place a considerable distance away. The weird call of the 
whip-poor-will, the boom of the nighthawk, and the hoot of the owl often 
break the quiet of the early hours of darkness. 




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FLORA OF THE ADIRONDACKS 

HEN you go to the Adirondacks, take with you not only your spy- 
glass for the birds, but your microscope and botany as well, for 
on nearly every walk you are likely to come across some 
flower that you do not know. A list of the plants that grow 
in the single township of North Elba, published by the State 
Museum, includes 1223 species representing I 18 families, and 
even so the list professes to be incomplete. A large part of these are, of 
course, rare and comparatively unfamiliar. 

One of the most prized flowers that blossom in the early spring is 
the trailing arbutus, which grows in great patches under the pines. It often 
happens that a trail runs just below a ridge covered with the arbutus, fresh 
and fragrant, m a softly rolling bed made by the crowded mass of graceful 
leaves. Like the arbutus many other wood vines afford a pretty sight, even 
when not in flower. The partridge-berry vine, creeping snowberry, and 
dalibarda are attractive, though common. In June one of the beautiful 
things to see is a bank of bunch-berry blossoms. They are so many and 
crowded that the white whorls fairly make a white carpet. One can see 
quantities of these from the car window along the Mohawk and Malone 
Division. Besides all the small low flowers of spring, there are many 
beautiful flowering shrubs and bushes. Of these the mountain ash, the 
sumac, the hawthorns, wild plums and cherries, and the different varieties of 
dogwoods deserve particular notice. 

When the season has advanced somewhat the eye is delighted by the 
beautiful masses of pink sheep laurel, which is particularly characteristic of 
the region. It is found on the low shores of lakes and streams, and even on 
the tops of mountains, but is most striking in great level stretches in company 
with the blueberry bushes and their white flowers. Usually in these bogs 
are also different varieties of spiraea, some bearing white and some pink 
flowers. These plants all grow close together, making a wide expanse of 
bloom in June and July. At the base of these plants the ground is covered 
with sphagnum moss. In the spring these swamps are very wet, but some- 
times in the summer, when it looks as though you would sink into the water 
should you venture to enter, if you do step in, you will find that the moss is 
perfectly dry and settles down under your feet into a soft, velvety carpet. The 
closed blue gentian and low bush cranberry are also found in these bogs, 
but their beauty is greater in August and September, when the gentian 
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of delicate green. The foliage of the cranberry is beautiful at any time, 
the leaves being small and the effect of the whole delicate and fernlike. 

Areas of these swamps lie around the shores of the small, boggy 
ponds that are so numerous In the Adirondacks. To one acquainted with 
the woods and a lover of all that it contains, it is a delight to come upon 
one of these places and to look for the things he knows that he will find. 
When he comes to one of these ponds he expects to see all the plants al- 
ready mentioned as typical of the laurel tracts and, if early enough in the 
season, the delicate, fragrant blossoms of some of the orchids. Here, too, he 
will almost surely see the curious pitcher-plants and, in company with them, 
another flycatcher, the sundew. The yellow loosestrife, St. Johns-wort, and 
blue monkey-flowers are also often present. 

Out on the surface of the water, from the middle of July till the end of 
summer, are likely to he the beautiful white pond-lilies and their vulgar, yellow 
cousins. There are ponds that are just one expanse of lily blossoms so 
crowded that the edges of the green pads roll up and show the dark red of 
their under surface. The white pond-lilies of the Adirondacks, though 
smaller than the large coarse lilies of the St. Lawrence River or other 
waters away from the woods, are much more beautiful. The olive green 
of the four sepals enriched with a tinge of pink, and the lines of pink painted 
on the outer white petals, together with their delicate size and perfume, 
make them exquisite. The insignificant water-arum and the blue flowers 
of the pickerel-weed are very plain, and yet even these add an agree- 
able touch. 

Like the sphagnum laurel tracts and boggy ponds there are other 
places in the Adirondacks that have ]ust as characteristic features. There are 
mountain sides where grows the oxalis that covers the ground in early sum- 
mer with its delicate pinkish blossoms. There are the mountain rivulets rushing 
down their precipitous course, where one expects to find green, mossy 
stones and the evergreen and spinulose shield-ferns. And on a mountain 
side there is likely to be a sheer cliff or a rocky crevice where one may look 
for polypodium and the rarer rusty woodsia and brittle ferns. There are 
the burned tracks where poplars, pin-cherries, raspberry bushes, golden-rod, 
everlasting, and flreweed always appear in time. The flreweed in a 
single stalk is not at all a handsome flower, but when growing in masses, as it 
sometimes does, its magenta color is striking. 

The luxuriant growth in places on the banks of the rivers is one of the 
particularly beautiful sights in the Adirondacks. It is delightful to canoe in 
July on the upper waters of the Grass, where on either bank is a dense 
border of alders, royal and sensitive ferns, button-bush, and a most fragrant 

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species of wild rose, with a crowded profusion of creamy elder-flowers, 
white thoroughwort, pink queen-of-the-meadow, and the tall, graceful, 
feathery blossoms of meadow-rue. Here and there a cardinal-flower is be- 
ginning to open, and over all clambers the wild clematis with its delicate 
white flowers, long streamers of it trailing in the water. Above this lower 
shrubbery bend the soft maples and the black ash harmonizing with the 
heavy forest beyond. 

If one does not know and see the trees, plants, and flowers of the 
woods, he loses much joy to be had in the Adirondacks. To one who 
does know them, it is such delight that he feels like exclaiming at every new 
discovery. On a tramp, every little while, he calls, "Oh, here is the princess 
pine!" or, "Oh, see the Indian pipes!" If he sees the shining green leaves 
of the goldthread, he must stoop down until he has uncovered the gold 
threads of the underground stem, and when he finds the little umbrella of the 
Indian-cucumber with its stem covered with cottony down, he must dig up 
the white, fleshy root. Perhaps he takes particular delight in knowing the 
many medicinal plants and always notices the sarsaparilla and ladies-slipper. 
Perhaps he finds a plant that he doesn't know. This he must carry home 
to his microscope and botany. 

There is some new beauty for every season of the year. The flowers 
are not all gone in August. Then one may see in the ditches by a wood's 
road the white snakes-head, the orange flowers of the snapdragon or 
jewelweed, purple astors, beautifully contrasting with the orange butterflies 
which hover over them, and, making an exquisite background to all these, the 
lace like lady-fern, maiden *s-hair-fern, and the tall fronds of the cinnamon- 
fern. 

In late summer and early autumn many of the plants bear seed-pods 
that are fully as beautiful as the flowers from which they developed. For 
example, notice the spike of shining scarlet berries on the ]ack-in-the-pulpit, 
the deeper red seed-pod of the trilllum, the white baneberries, the blue berries 
of Clintonia borealis, the red berries of the mountain-ash and shad, and the 
orange clusters of the bursting bittersweet berries. 

When winter comes the Adirondacks have not lost their charm. The 
tracks of the wild animals in the snow show the presence of denizens of the 
forest in places where they do not venture in the summer. The evergreens 
are even more beautiful against the white background or when their branches 
sparkle with ice; and if the snow is not too deep, one can find the evergreen 
fern, the Christmas fern, the several varieties of ground-pine, and the partridge- 
berry vine which make as beautiful decorations as the flowers. 

Of the trees found in the sphagnum tracts, one of the most character- 

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istic is the tamarack. One is likely to see many of these, some dead or 
dying, all covered with light, greenish gray moss that hangs from their trunks 
almost like hair. White cedar also occurs in the tamarack tracts, which 
are on the lowest, most poorly drained land, immediately along the streams. 
Cedar reaches a better development in better drained swamps, where it often 
reaches as much as fifty feet in height. 

There are dark and solemn hemlock groves that occur in spots in the 
midst of the forest. It seems that the soil there furnishes just the substance 
that the hemlocks need, for there will not be another kind of tree in the 
group, though other trees grow close up without breaking the hemlock 
ranks. I recall a good example on Stony Creek mountain. Although 
sometimes occurring in the midst of other trees, the hemlock has a marked 
tendency thus to grow in groups. 

In primeval forest there are also pure hardwood ridges, and slopes of 
pine or spruce, as well as hemlock in pure stand. On the other hand, there 
are places where many different kmds of trees are found side by side. On 
the spruce land, which is well drained land and embraces the rising ground 
and lower mountain slopes, red spruce is the predominant species, in some 
sections making about fifty per cent, of the mixture. The principal other 
species on this type of land are the yellow birch, balsam, beech, hard maple, 
and white pine. It is in this part of the forest that the hardwoods reach 
their highest percentage in the mixture. Balsam, though found in mixture 
throughout the forest, is more common on the lower portions of the spruce 
lands. The hemlock grows best on the lower slopes of the principal moun- 
tains. The white pine seeks the sandy banks of lake shores, where it stands 
pure or mixed with red or Norway pine and white paper birch. This latter 
combination is very beautiful. Loon Lake and Upper Saranac Lake have 
some particularly beautiful stretches of pines and white birches along their 
shores. Where one sees these trees one may look for wintergreens. On 
the summits and steep upper slopes, spruce still predominates, with a mixture 
of birch, hard maple, beech, and balsam The trees here do not reach their 
best development, owing to poor soil and exposure. 

In the whole forest the principal species of trees in the order in which 
they occur are : red spruce, yellow birch, balsam, hemlock, beech, hard 
maple, and white pine. With these grow the arbor-vitae, black spruce, 
tamarack, red or Norway pine, soft maple, white and black ash, black 
cherry, pin-cherry, hop hornbeam, aspens, basswood, and elms. Elm, black 
cherry, and basswood are found only in small numbers. The underbrush is 
mainly witch hobble, striped maple or moosewood, mountain or spotted 
maple, and flowering dogwood. 

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NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES 

Mohawk and Malone Division 

THE ordinary means of access to the Adirondacks on the west is that 
part of the New York Central Railroad which runs horn Utica to 
Montreal and which, north of Remsen, is known as the Mohawk and Ma- 
lone Division. As one goes northward from Utica on this road the flr^ 
place reached that is noteworthy on account of its natural beauties, though 
it is not, properly speaking, in the Adirondacks, is 

Xrenton. The West Canada Creek, while flowing here through 
a series of rapids and falls, in a distance of three miles descends as many 
thousand feet. From the banks of the stream at various points, rise sheer 
limestone walls, their layers worn and broken, the whole producing an effedt 
that is picturesque and in no small degree impressive. 

Forestport is the station from which to go by team to Fore^ 
Lodge (Address, Honnedaga) on Honnedaga Lake, the property of the 
Adirondack League Club. In addition to the above named lake, the pre- 
serve of this club (which contains some 80,000 acres) also includes Bisby 
Lake, on which is Bisby Lodge (Address, Bisby, via McKeever; railroad 
station, McKeever), and Little Moose Lake, on which is Mountain Lodge 
(Address and railroad station. Old Forge). New York address, 45 Broad- 
way. President, Mr. William P. Smith. 

FULTON CHAIN station is the point of departure for the Fulton 
Chain of Lakes, Raquette Lake, and Blue Mountain Lake. The trip to 
the head of Fourth Lake may be made either by the Raquette Lake Rail- 
way, via Clearwater to Eagle Bay, or by steamer from Old Forge. From 
Fulton Chain to Old Forge is a distance of two miles, which may be 
traveled either by the Fulton Chain Railway or by stage to the Old Forge 
House. Fare, twenty-five cents, either way. Old Forge, a small village 
with a steamboat landing on the outlet of First Lake, is a convenient center 
for either boating or driving. One may travel by water without a carry a 
dozen miles in either direction, down the Moose River or up to the head of 
Fourth Lake. Owing to its accessibility and the ease with which trips to 
various points may be taken, this place is frequented by those who wish to 
go where only a moderate degree of exertion is necessary. There is a State 
Fish Hatchery here. The Old Forge House stands on rising ground a 
short distance from the steamboat landing. Post-Office, Old Forge. 

In I 798 John Brown, at one time Governor of Rhode Island, purchased a tract of land 
in the Adirondacks embracing over 200,000 acres, still known as the John Brown Tradl, 
at a cost of some thirty-eight cents an acre. In 1812 his son-in-law, Charles F. Herres- 
hoff. built on this land a manor house and brought to the place a number of families to 

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settle on the vast estate which he hoped to bring under cultivation. His efforts at agri- 
culture proving unsuccessful, he began elaborate operations in mining and smelting iron ore. 
This undertaking, which was a failure also, ended with the suicide of Herreshoff. The 
"Old Forge" has given its name to the scene of the ill-starred enterprise. The dam made at 
that early day still exists, enlarged, causing the water to spread some distance beyond its 
original banks. 

The Fulton Chain of Lakes, eight in number, take their name 
from the navigator Fulton. They make a waterway, with small interruptions, 
from Old Forge to Raquette Lake. The steamers of the Fulton Naviga- 
tion Company run from Old Forge to the head of Fourth Lake, carrying 
passengers and supplies to hotels and camps along the line. Fare, seventy- 
five cents. The low shores of First Lake are a natural home of the beaver, 
and in the near neighborhood on the south and on the South Branch of 
Moose River, some of the families of them recently introduced in the Adi- 
rondacks are now domiciled. The land adjoining First and Second lakes 
is mostly owned by Mrs. W. A. Soper, whose picturesque camp stands op- 
posite that of the late President Harrison. 




A narrow channel leads to Third Lake, which is more attractive than 
the two preceding. On the north side of the lake is Bald Mountain, a high 
ridge about a mile in length. From its crest, which is bare of trees and 
easily reached, one may obtain a good view of the surrounding region and, 
on a clear day, see Blue Mt. and other peaks. At the foot of the mountain 
is the Bald Mountain House. Address, C. M. Barrett, Old Forge. 

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Fourth Lake has long been a favorite resort. It is one of the be^ 
known and most frequented places in the Adirondacks. It is about six miles 
long and most of its length one mile or more in width. The shores of the 
lake are lined with pleasant though not pretentious summer cottages. In the 
daytime the numerous craft on the water, at night the hghts which are 
thickly sprinkled along the margin of the lake give to passers-by cheerful 
evidence of the summer population. Evening entertainments, frequent trips 
to and fro between points m the neighborhood, excursions of outside parties, 
baseball games between neighboring camps, all add to the life of the place 
and go to make the atmosphere of sociability which prevails. 

The Eagle Bay House has accommodations for one hundred and 
seventy-five. The house and grounds are lighted by gas, and the house is heated 
by steam. There are seven open fires. The casino, which was recently 
built, is tastefully finished in hard wood. It has twelve attractive bachelor 
apartments with private baths. Here also are a reception room and a ball- 
room. Below are the post-office, barber shop, and a boathouse with 
twenty-five rowboats and canoes. There are two cottages. A well kept 
lawn occupies the slope between the hotel and the lake. The table is ex- 
ceptionally elaborate and furnishes delicacies that one does not expect to 
find remote from city markets. The hotel has an especially fine garden, 
from which an abundance of vegetables may be had. There are two fine 
springs. A pleasant climb leads to the top of Black Bear Mt. From this, 
Raquette Lake and Blue Mt. Lake can be seen. Rates $4 a day; $1 7 
to $35 a week, one in a room; $40 to $60, two in a room. Special rates 
to families. Open June 1 to November 15. 

Other houses on Fourth Lake are Cohasset (Address, Old Forge), 
Neodak, Cedar Island, Rocky Point inn. Arrowhead Inn, and The Wood 
(Address, Inlet). 

The Inlet connects Fourth and Fifth Lakes. From Fourth Lake to 
Fifth Lake (,'3 mile long) X mile; to Sixth Lake ('_> mile long) '^4. mile; 
to Seventh Lake 1 mile. 

Eagle Bay may also be reached by the Raquette Lake Railway, which 
meets the New York Central at 

CLLARvVAXER. The locomotives on this railway use oil for 
fuel, an arrangement which, if adopted generally on lines running through 
the Adirondacks, would apparently greatly diminish the danger of foreSt 
fires. Through sleeping cars from New York run over this line. Fare from 
Clearwater to Eagle Bay, fifty cents. This route is also a convenient means 
of access to the Seventh Lake House, which is three and one-half miles 
from Eagle Bay. For information about this house see page 30. 

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EAGLE BAY HOTEL 





HEAD OF FOURTH LAKE 

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Seventh Lake House 

HIGHEST ELEVATION OF ANY HOTEL 
ON FULTON CHAIN OF LAKES 



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F. A. WILLIAMS, INLET, N.Y. 



The Seventh Lake House on Seventh Lake is a place "without 
any frills," but one of growing popularity. Seventh Lake is three miles long 
and one mile wide. Adjoining are what are practically virgin forests of 
fragrant pine and balsam, with places suitable for camping and picnic parties. 
Hunting and fishing are found in the vicinity. A pleasant trip is easily made 
in a day to Raquette Lake and back by way of Eighth Lake. Trips to 
Bug, Eighth, Limekiln, and Eagle Lakes, and Black Bear Mt. can be made 
easily in a half day. The hotel has an elevation of 1 820 feet above sea 
level, and therefore a delightfully cool temperature is the rule. A furnace 
provides heat when it is needed, and the house is equipped with sanitary 
plumbing. There is a long distance telephone, and mail is brought by rural 
free delivery. Vegetables and milk are obtained from a garden and cows 
kept by the hotel. Two new rustic cottages with bath and fireplace have 
been built during the past winter. This is the only hotel on the lake, and it 
is therefore secluded and quiet. Guests arrive by train at Eagle Bay, by 
boat at the main landing at the head of Fourth Lake. A team meets the 
afternoon train and boat, other trains and boats on request. Fare from 
Nation, fifty cents; from boat, twenty-five cents. For terms address the pro- 
prietor. 

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RAQUETTE LAKE station on the shore of Raquette Lake is 
at the end of the Raquette Lake Railway. Fare from Clearwater, ninety- 
five cents. An excellent meal may be obtained at the railway restaurant 
for one dollar. 

A few miles from Raquette Lake on the south are three elaborate 

private places: Kamp Kill Kare, 
owned by Hon. Timothy L. 
Woodruff, on Lake Kora; Saga- 
more Lodge on Sagamore Lake, 
the property of Mr. Alfred G. 
Vanderbilt; and Camp Uncas on 
Mohegan Lake, owned by Mr. 
I. Pierpont Morgan and reputed 

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to have cost at least $120,000 
to build. These latter places are all reached from Uncas Road station. 

Raquette Lake is the largest lake in the Adirondacks (twelve 
miles by three miles). Its outline is extremely irregular; many deeply receding 
bays give to the whole a shape to which the Indian name, Lake of the 
Great Star, is appropriate. It contains some twenty islands, whose wooded 
outlines add much to the beauty of the place. The elevation of the lake 
itself ( 1 762 feet) is so great that the surrounding heights are not by com- 
parison conspicuously high. Ridges of moderate height rise by gentle slopes 
from the level of the lake, whose picturesquely ragged outline is one of the 
principal beauties of the place. An unbroken stretch of thick growth of 
evergreens follows the line of the shore and reaches back in apparently end- 
less Wretches of what seems to the eye the virgin forest. This secluded re- 
gion, whose native beauties are still unmarred by destructive attempts at 
improvement, was long ago penetrated by the more adventurous who felt 
the lure of the wilderness and were not restrained by the difficulties which 
the journey to it then presented. Since even before the time of Adiron- 
dack Murray its wild beauty has been extolled. Says Murray writing in 
1 869 and describing a trip through the woods, "Then go on and do not 
camp until you do so on the southern or western shore of Raquette Lake. 
Here you will find good sporting and scenery unsurpassed. Build here 
your central camp, and, as soon as you are established, take your boat and 
go over to the 'Wood's Place,' and from the knoll on which the, house 
stands you will gaze upon one of the finest water views in the world. '•' * * 
Then paddle to Beaver Bay, and find that point in it from which you can 
arouse a whole family of sleeping echoes along the western ridge and the 

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heavy woods opposite. Then go to Constable Point, and quench your thirst 
at the coolest, sweetest spring of pure water from which you ever drank. 
Go next to the southern part of the lake, so hidden behind the islands that 
you would never suspect such a lovely sheet of water lay beyond, with its 
two beautiful reaches of softly shining sand, one white as silver, the other 
yellow as gold; and m the waters which lave the golden, find the best bath- 
ing in the whole wilderness." In J. T. Headley's book, written twenty 
years earlier, occurs this passage, "Let the spectator overlook a scene like 
this, and at the same time bring within the scope of his vision the whole 
southern section of the lake, with its islands, indented shores, and conter- 
minous forests, and a richer and more picturesque view can scarcely be 
imagined. Add to this the sullen stillness of the wilderness, where nature, 
unmarred by the hand of man, dwells in her primeval glory — her music the 
pealing thunder — the eagle's shrill voice — the wild notes of the loon — and 
the sound of the gentle breeze as it ruffles the surface of the lake — and no 
man of sensibility can escape the enchantment." 

To-day one may travel to the very shore of the lake in a Pullman car 
and enjoy the comforts of excellent hotel service during his stay; but the 
region still preserves its original character, and inasmuch as the lake lies in 
the mid^ of State land, its forests will not be cut down, and its beauty ap- 
parently stands in danger of nothing except possible forest fires. 

Raquette Lake has an Episcopalian and a Roman Catholic church. 
The former, a tasteful structure located on St. Hubert's Isle, was the gift of 
Mr. William W. Durant. Of the attractive rustic cottages built of logs in 
their natural state, of which there are several about the lake, a typical ex- 
ample is Echo Camp, owned by Ex-Governor Lounsbury, of Connecticut. 
Mrs. C. P. Huntington now owns 
Camp Pine Knot, of which the 
original part was built by Mr. 
Durant, who seems to have intro- 
duced the prevailing style of archi- 
tecture. Mr. Durant expended 
much labor and money in the de- 
velopment of this region. Not all 
his ertorts bore the rruits which 
his enterprise and generosity deserved. The Carry Inn at Marion River 
Carry and the Utowana at Blue Mt. Lake — both going to ruin — were 
unsuccessful ventures launched by him. 

It is related that a party of British and Indians once passed this way during the Revolu- 
bon traveling on snowshoes ( raquettes). Overtaken by a thaw which made it impossible 

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for them to use their snowshoes, they piled them in a heap under a group of pme trees 
near South Inlet. The name of the lake is. by some, traced to this incident; another ex- 
planation derives the name from the fancied general resemblance of the shape of the lake to 
that of a snowshoe. Camp Pine Knot was built from the trees around which the forego- 
ing tradition centers. Indian Point is reputed to be the site of a primitive settlement of 
red men. 

Osprey Island, directly in front of The Antlers, took its name from an osprey which 
long ago made its home there. This island was afterward sometimes called "Murray 
Island," in honor of the well-known writer. At one time a recluse named Alvah Dunning, 
morose and taciturn, had a camp on this island, where he lived with his dogs for company 
and gave scant welcome to passers-by. 

The principal hotel is The Antlers. Other places are Brightside, 
Sunset Camp, and Hunters' Rest. Address, Raquette Lake. 

Blue Mountain Lake is reached by steamer from Raquette Lake. 
Two trips are made daily. Fare, $L25. After crossing Raquette 
Lake from The Antlers to the mouth of Marion River, the steamer slowly 
makes its way about four miles up the narrow, tortuous channel. A tangled for- 
est growth, in which dead tamaracks are thickly interspersed, crowds close to 
the low, sedgy banks. At Marion River Carry passengers and baggage 
are transferred about a half mile in open cars to Utowana Lake, where 
another steamboat is taken for Blue Mountain Lake. On Utowana Lake is 
Daly's Hotel (Address, Raquette Lake). Beyond Utowana Lake (two 
miles long) is Eagle Lake (one mile long). 

Eagle Lake derives its chief general interest from its association with "Ned Buntline" 
(Mr. Edward Z. C. Judson). Mr. Judson was born in 1823. As a boy he ran away 
to sea and later he served in the Seminole, Mexican, and Civil Wars. At different times he 
employed his versatile powers as an author, lecturer, and actor. He had an ungovernable 
temper, and during the time when he lived at Eagle's Nest, he gained considerable local 
notoriety from occasional episodes in which he was an actor. He has a juster clcum to re- 
membrance in his numerous writings, some of which are Buffalo Bill stories, others prose 
and verse of much delicacy and beauty of sentiment. The site of his wilderness home is 
now held by a private club, another institution which owes existence to the initiative of 
Mr. Durant. 

A new outlet to Blue Mt. Lake has been constructed with a channel which permits 
the passage of steamers. Across the old outlet is a substantial bridge of rustic design, erected 
by Mr. William W. Durant in memory of his father. Dr. Charles C. Durant, at one time 
vice-president and general manager of the Union Pacific Railway. 

Blue Mountain Lake challenges comparison with any spot in the 
Adirondacks. It has not, to be sure, the extent of Raquette Lake or the in- 
teresting variety of mountain scenery around Lake Placid, but it has a 
charm that is peculiarly its own. "Gem" and "Pearl" of the Adirondacks, 
terms often applied to it, best express the refined beauty of the place. The 
view is seen to good advantage from the western end of the lake in late 
afternoon. As one looks across the glassy surface of the lake, whose small 

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Blue Mountain House 



XQUISITE SCENERY. 

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TOWAHLOONDAH, HAMILTON COUNTY, N.Y. 



islands rest the eye, to where the purpling slopes of Blue Mountain roll 
back to the horizon, in outline, color, and spirit, the scene is satisfying in a 
degree seldom experienced. 

The Blue Mountain House is placed among surroundings which 
for quiet, restful beauty would be hard to equal. It stands some two hundred 
feet above Blue Mt. Lake; behind it looms the towering bulk of Blue Mt.; 
below lies the azure surface of the lake, with the steamboat landing and the 
little hamlet of Blue Mountain Lake. Here is no whirl of social gaiety, no 
demands of ultra-fashionable society. The hotel itself makes no architect- 
ural pretensions. On the other hand the place is eminently attractive and 
homelike. Its guests are persons who wish to enjoy themselves sensibly, wl:o 
become acquainted with each other, and find enjoyment in the entertain- 
ment which all help to provide. The rates are moderate, and the fare, 
though not elaborate, is plentiful and satisfactory. 

Long Lake may be reached over a nine mile drive by stage (fare, 
$1.25) or carriage from Blue Mt. Lake, or by similar conveyance from 
Long Lake West. The drive from Blue Mt. Lake is over a very good 
road and through the woods its entire length. Long Lake (thirteen miles), 
which is really an expansion of the Raquette River, is narrow in proportion 

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to its length, being only about one and one-half miles across at its wide^ 
point. This region may fairly claim to be the most secluded spot where 
summer travelers go in all the Adirondacks. On the shore of the lake are 
camps, more or less elaborate, and two important hotels, The Sagamore 
and Deerland Lodge. Along the eastern shore of the lake is a strip of 
cleared land and a straggling village with a settled population of some 
hundreds. The Long Lake make of boat is manufactured here. In this 
region some of the most extensive lumber operations now conducted in the 
Adirondacks are being carried on. Owl's Head Mt. lies near the head 
of the lake; Mt. Kempshall is a prominent feature near the other end. 

OLD FORGE TO PAUL SMITH'S— WATER ROUTE 

For route from Old Forge to Raquette Lake see page 26. 

From Raquette Lake, to Forked Lake, to Forked Lake Carry, through 
Raquette River eight miles (navigable about three-quarters of the way), 
through Long Lake thirteen miles, through Raquette River twelve miles 
(with one mile carry past Raquette Falls), to Axton, through Stony Creek 
three miles, through Spectacle (Stony Creek) Ponds one and one-half miles, 
by Indian Carry one mile, to Upper Saranac Lake. 

Upper Saranac Lake may also be reached from Long Lake by the 
following routes: Long Lake, to Clear, to Little Slim, to Big Slim, to Stony 
Pond, to Little Tupper, (or Long Lake, to Forked, to Little Forked, to 
Carry, to Bottle, to Little Tupper) four miles to Round Lake, to Tupper 
Lake, through Raquette River eleven miles to Tromblee's, by Sweeney 
Carry three miles to Wawbeek on Upper Saranac Lake. These latter 

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routes involve a considerable number of carries and should be taken only 
by those who are prepared to meet some degree of hardship. 

Through Upper Saranac Lake to Saranac inn, two miles to Little 
Clear, to Green, to Little Long, to Bear, to Marsh, to Upper St. Regis, to 
Spitfire, through Lower St. Regis to Paul Smith's. 

The last named route is called the "Seven Carries. " An alternative 
route, less novel but easier for the guide, is by "Two Carries" as follows: 
From Saranac Inn four miles to Lake Clear, two miles to Upper St. 
Regis, to Spitfire, through Lower St. Regis to Paul Smith's. 

The trip, may of course, be made in the reverse direction, with the 
slight disadvantage of going against the current on the Raquette River, 
when traveling by way of Raquette Falls. On the longest carries a horse 
is necessary, costing $ I to $2 according to distance. Guides may be en- 
gaged with boats at any of the resorts along the route. Those who enjoy 
canoeing, it is needless to say, will find the trip interesting and delightful. 



BIG MOOSE station is the point of greatest elevation on the line 
of the Mohawk and Malone Division of the New York Central (2033 ft.), as 
is graphically illustrated by the puffing of the locomotives when they draw 
loads of freight past this point. Teams meet trains at the station to take 
passengers to Glenmore Landing at the foot of Big Moose Lake, two miles 
to the east. Fare, fifty cents. The level of the lake (four and one-half 
miles by one mile) is so high that there are no prominent peaks to be seen 
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The Glenmore is the hotel first reached at the foot of the lake. 
In 1 908 it was conducted by a new management. The present proprietor, 
Mr. J. R. Duquette, belongs to a race famous for culinary skill and is him- 
self a hotel man of long experience. He has set out to make a reputation 
for the table at the Glenmore, whose storeroom and cellar produce an abun- 
dance of articles to satisfy an exacting palate. Names of responsible per- 
sons in both Canada and the States who are well satisfied patrons of Mr. 
Duquette will be furnished on application. The house has capacity for 
one hundred guests, it is heated by steam and lighted by gas and has 
modern sanitation. It has a long distance telephone. Amusements offered 
are bathing, tramping, boating, tennis, billiards, and in the evening dancing 
for those who are inclined to it. Terms, $1 2 to $25 a week. 

Lake View Lodge has a desirable location on a point near the 
foot of the lake. It stands on high, dry ground and through the trees, of which 
there are just enough around, commands a fine view of the lake. The 
Lodge is a substantial three story building in good condition. It has open 
fires, is lighted by gas, and has sanitary plumbing. There are six rustic 
cottages, each provided with bath and fireplace. Vegetables and milk 
are produced on the premises. Terms. $1 2 to $20 a week. 



Lake View Lodge 

WITH SIX RUSTIC COTTAGES 



UPERB VIEW. AIR 

COOL AND INVIGOR- 

I ATING. COMFORT- 
ABLE SURROUNDINGS. 
WELL FURNISHED TABLE. 
SATISFIED PATRONAGE. 



CHARLES WILLIAMS 

BIG MOOSE, N.Y. 



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DANT SPORT, AND SUPERIOR 
CUISINE, COMBINED WITH 
ITS EXPERIENCED MANAGE- 
MENT AND COURTEOUS AT- 
TENTION TO GUESTS, MAKE 
THIS A POPULAR RESORT 



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BIG MOOSE, N.Y. 




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There are some thirty ponds within two miles of Big Moose Lake. 
This is one of the finest hunting and fishing sections in the woods. 

Beaver River station gives access to the Beaver River Clubhouse 
and the preserve connected with it. 

Brandreth Lake station marks the western extremity of the Brand- 
reth Preserve, which takes its name from two of the owners. In this 
preserve are Brandreth Lake and sources of the Raquette, Beaver, and 
Moose rivers. 

Keepawa, Partlow, and Ne-ha-sa-ne are private stations on 
Ne-ha-sa-ne Park. Dr. William Seward Webb, president. Dr. Webb 
is well known on account of his connection with important railroad affairs, 
including the construction of the line on which these stations are located. 
Ne-ha-sa-ne Park contains over 40,000 acres, hs two largest bodies of 
water are Ne-ha-sa-ne Lake and Lake Lila, the latter named after Mrs. 
Webb, who was Lila Osgood Vanderbilt. Keepawa is near Ne-ha-sa-ne 
Lake, which lies east of the railroad. The main buildings are on Lake Lila, 
which is near Ne-ha-sa-ne station on the east. The park is enclosed by a 
wire fence, and within its limits game has been carefully preserved and steps 
taken toward the propagation of uncommon species. 

Robinwood is the summer home of Mr. Irving Bacheller, a well- 
known author. Mr. Bacheller has made familiar the North Country, where 
the scene of his Eben Holden is laid. His Silas Strong is a delightful story 
of woods life and incidentally a forceful appeal for the preservation of the 
forests. Mr. Bacheller's estate includes Robin Lake. 

LONG LAKE WEST is twenty miles from Long Lake. Stages 
between these places run daily, except Sunday, leaving each place at 7 a. m. 
and arriving at the other about noon. Fare, two dollars each way, includ- 
ing one hundred pounds of baggage; excess baggage, one dollar for each 
one hundred pounds. Private conveyance carrying three persons, or fewer, 
and driver, eight dollars. Notice should be given two days ahead to the 
railroad station agent at Long Lake West, when a private conveyance is 
desired. Address, Sabattis. The road to Long Lake is rough and diffi- 
cult. It passes through the Whitney Preserve. Some of the most des- 
tructive forest fires in 1 908 raged in the vicinity of Long Lake West. 

At Horse Shoe numerous operations with a view to ideal fore^ 
development have been set on foot through the initiative of Mr. Augustus 
A. Low, brother of Hon. Seth Low, of New York. This valuable estate 
contains 27,000 acres. On it sawmills have been constructed, private 
tracks laid, and other facilities introduced for use in the production of lumber 
and maple sugar and in connection with similar forest industries in the de- 

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velopment of which, in accordance with his ideas, Mr. Low has shown en- 
thusiastic intereS. 

At Pleasant Lake (reached from the station of the same name) is 
the property of a private club. 

CHILD\VOLD is the point of departure for Massawepie Lake 
and vicinity. The lake and the land between it and the station lie in 
Childwold Park, a private preserve embracing 6,000 acres. Near the 
northern end of the lake is the commodious Hotel Child WOld. Address, 
Massawepie. A half-mile farther, on Catamount Pond, is Gale's, one of 
the old and moderate priced resorts of this region. Address, Gale. The 
drive from the station is seven miles in length and over a pleasant road. 
Fare, $ 1 . This road continues to Potsdam and Canton. Parties going 
over this route may also hire conveyance at Piercefield, a hamlet 
whose welfare centers chiefly around a plant of the International Paper 
Company. Seven miles beyond Gale's the road passes Seavey's, where 
hunters and transients can secure entertainment at a small price. Ad- 
dress, Seavey. 

TUPPER LAKE JUNCTION is at the junction of the New 
York Central and the New York and Ottawa Railroad, which starting from 
Tupper Lake crosses the Rutland Railroad at Moira. 

On the New York and Ottawa around Bay Pond, is Mr. 
William G. Rockefeller's Preserve, which contains over 50,000 
acres. Some irritation has been manifested in that vicinity by per- 
sons who were formerly accustomed to hunt and fish on this tract. 
The fadt should not be overlooked, however, that Mr. Rockefeller has 
paid for much of this land two or three times its value, or more, enab- 
ling the former owners to purchase good farms elsewhere, and that he 
has given permanent remunerative employment to many residents of 
the region. 

Spring Cove is the nearest station to the modest inn kept 
by D. J. Day, four miles by stage from the railroad and near what 
is known locally as Blue Mt. 

Tupper Lake Junction is the most convenient point from which to reach 
The Wawbeek, Hiawatha Lodge, and Saranac Club. Tupper Lake 
village IS one mile from the station. Travelers may dine at the Hotel Alta- 
mont ($2 a day) and secure from Hayes's Livery, under the same 
management, conveyance for the above named places. Fare, two dollars. 
The road to Upper Saranac Lake (nine miles) is first-class. The disastrous 
fires of 1903 raged here, andUor some miles from the village the timber 
has been mostly swept away. 

About halfway to the lake one passes the site of the Cornell School of Forestry, 
which was maintained during the'years 1899-1903. The State gave to Cornell University 

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the timber rights on a large tract bordering on the Raquette River to control absolutely for 
the purposes of scientific forestry. The University contracted to dispose of its produdl to the 
Brooklyn Cooperage Company, which constructed railroads for the purpose of conducting 
operations. Popular dissatisfaction subsequently arose over the methods employed, and the 
grant to Cornell was revoked. Plantations of Scotch and White pine which were set out 
when the school was in operation are now some nine years old, and the trees are of 
considerable size. 

Hiawatha Lodge is one mile distant from Upper Saranac Lake 
on Indian Carry. Here one meets with mountain scenery that has all the 
charm of that around Upper Saranac. Seward, Stony Creek, and Panther 
Mountains are included in the outlook. Close beside the Lodge are the quiet 
waters of Spectacle Ponds, to which the Indians gave the name Enchanted 
Waters. Here tradition says the warriors in the olden days held their 
council fires. So well is the atmosphere of the forest still preserved that this 
place seems appropriate for the scene of one of Cooper's romances. The 
Lodge is an excellent starting place for long distance boating. A row 
across the three Spectacle Ponds ( 1 ' - miles) and through Stony Creek 
(3 miles) or a two mile drive to Axton (a station of the teams of the Santa 
Clara Lumber Company on their way to Ampersand Mt.), brings one to 
the Raquette River. From Axton one may row twenty miles to Tupper 
Lake village or seven miles to Raquette Falls without a carry. Sportsmen 
find the Lodge a convenient stopping place on their way to and from the 
Cold River country during the hunting season. The fare is abundant and 
satisfactory. There are several cottages for rent to private parties. This hotel 
affords a good opportunity to enjoy the region of the Upper Saranac at a 
moderate price. Rates, $3 a day; $ 1 5 a week and upward. 

Some interesting Indian legends are connected with the region around Upper Saranac 
Lake. According to one of these, a giant once upon a time lived beside the lake. His 
^ride was enormous. At the coming of the white man he forthwith left this region, cross- 
ing at one step Indian Carry, between Upper Saranac Lake and Spectacle Ponds, where he 
left in the rock a huge footprint to mark his flight. 

An Indian maiden named Wah-loon-dah, Rippling Water, was once wooed and won 
by a brave named Os-sa-wah, Plumed Eagle. The two chose Ampersand Pond as the 
scene of their honeymoon. One day, when Os-sa-wah had gone to hunt, Wah-loon-dah 
heard him calling in distress. She hastened to the spot from which had come the sound of 
his voice, but found only his lifeless body lying where, running in pursuit of game, he had fallen 
over a precipice. Alone she performed over his body the burial rites of her people; then she 
plunged a knife into her own breast. Now, when other mountain lakes are lashed by Storms, 
Ampersand Pond moves but gently, as if the calm spirit of Rippling Water still lived in its depths. 

Another Indian maiden had a lover whose suit she refused. One day pursued by him 
she leaped into the Raquette to escape his too ardent wooing. On the spot where she went 
to her death, sprang up the pond lily, its white emblematic of her purity, its yellow in token 
of her brief inclination to yield. The cardinal flower, according to another legend, sprang 
from the blood of a sacred white deer which an Indian hunter had slain. 

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Hia\vatha Lodge 

IN THE REGION OF THE 



UPPER SARANAC 



Picturesque and 
Romantic Location 

Fishing, Hunting, 
and Boating 




Table Abundant 
Perfect Sanitation 

Pure Spring 
Water 



W. L. BECKMAN 

COREYS, N.Y. 



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SARANAC INN station is the railway station nearest to Upper 
Saranac Lake, which is two miles distant. This lake has long had 
the distinction of being one of the places most enjoyed by those who love 
the life of the woods. It attracts to its hospitality both by its natural sur- 
roundings and by its associations. The scenery has a rare variety of at- 
tradlive characteristics. In the foreground are low mountains; behind these 
rise tiers of higher peaks receding in picturesque succession to the crowning 
summits of Whiteface and Saddleback on the east and Marcy and Mclntyre 
on the south. The mountain slopes, densely wooded in all diredions, are 
in the case of the nearest, of a deep, dark green, which gradually shades in- 
to the faint blue of the distant horizon. A peculiar impression of spaciousness 
is given by the wide outlook of lake and forest and mountain, and there 
is a stimulating quality in the crisp, clear air that prompts to participation in the 
different forms of recreation, of which a peculiarly abundant variety is offered. 

The lake is an irregular body of water about eight miles in length, 
with several islands, the shore all wooded with good-sized trees. At various 
points are elaborate and substantial camps. That of Mr. Levi P. Morton 
is in rustic style, the surface treated with brown stain, as are many of the 
camps of this style in the Adirondacks. The camp of Mr. John P. Agar, 
on Birch Point, has the appearance of a finished house. 

On Ufi'EK Sai-'a.nac Lakk By f>erinission of Kenneth Gohithwaite 





SARANAC INN 



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Saranac Inn 

Is a Hostelry of Rstah- 
Ushed Reputation n^ n^ n^ 
It preserves an air of Old 
Fashioned Simplicity and 
Hospitality combined with 
Modern Equipment n^ "^c 
The Impression which it 
desires to give is that ot 
Dignity, Comfort, and 
Refinement sie v^ n^ 



M. B. MARSHALL, Manager 

UPF'FR SARANAC, NEW YORK 



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Saranac Inn is located at the head of the lake. It is a hotel of the 
highest class. The keynote of its management is quiet good taste. The 
architecture of the buildings is modest and dignified; the appointments are 

appropriate and adequate, 
with avoidance of cheap 
display, and are scrupu- 
lously cared for. This has 
for a generation been a 
favorite resort of a select 
and well established 
clientage among patrons 
who have learned to 
depend upon receiving here entirely satisfactory service and who come 
again and again to this place in preference to less exclusive establishments. 
Many persons of social and political prominence are numbered among the 
patrons of the hotel. In the summer of 1 908, the Governor of New York 
and his family spent the season here. 1 he late Ex-President Cleveland 
formerly spent his summers on the lake. Among the regular visitors pleasant 
acquaintances are formed and renewed from year to year. All the usual 
means of out-door diversion are found. Golf and similiar amusements are, 
of course, well patronized, but the lake and the numerous ponds near by 
and the woods trails give at this resort an exceptionally good opportunity for 
fishing and hunting and for tramping and boating, with a spice of wilderness 
life. Mr. M. B. Marshall is the courteous and efficient manager of the Inn. 
A steamer starts from the Inn and makes the circuit of the lake twice 
a day (except Sundays), taking four hours for the trip and covering about 
twenty-four miles. Fare one way, seventy-five cents; round trip, one dollar. 
Casual visitors can make a pleasant excursion by arriving at the Inn before 
dinner, taking the afternoon boat, and leaving by train for north or south 
after supper at the Inn. There is an excellent macadam road from the 
Nation to the Inn. A tally-ho coach meets all trains. Fare, twenty-five 
cents ; trunks, twenty-five cents each. Post office address, Upper Saranac ; 
telegraph, Saranac Inn. 

Fishing and Hunting. Brook, lake, and rainbow trout, land- 
locked salmon, and whitefish are caught in the lake and ponds, the waters of 
the lake being recruited from time to time with fry from the Adirondack 
Fish Hatchery located near Saranac Inn station. Some of the finest hunting 
grounds in the State are easily accessible. It is believed that in the vicinity of 
Upper Saranac Lake, and there alone of all parts of the Adirondacks, the 
beaver has never been wholly exterminated. To harm at this time any of 

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these animals, which so earnest an effort is being made to restore as a 
feature of the Adirondacks, would be not only a violation of the game 
laws, but an act deserving of general indignation. 

Trips. The region around Upper Saranac Lake contains a re- 
markable number of ponds, in many instances separated from each other by 
only short carries. It is therefore possible to make numerous interestingly 
varied boat trips from the lake as a starting point. The following are some 
of the most desirable: — 

To Lower Saranac Lake: Upper Saranac Lake to Bartlett Carry, 
to Saranac River, to Round Lake, to Saranac River, to Lower Saranac 
Lake. Time, four hours each way. 

To Rollins Pond: From Saranac Inn drive one mile to Hoel; thence 
by boat to Turtle, to Slang, to Long, to West Pine, to Pond-with-a-rock- 
in-it, to Rollins. Return by the same route or as follows: Rollins to Whey, 
to Big Square, to Fish Creek, to Upper Saranac; or Rollins to Floodwood, 
to Middle, to Pollywog, to Green, to Spring, to Upper Saranac. By the last 
named route the round trip requires four hours; by the other two, five hours. 

See also the all water route from Old Forge to Paul Smith's. 

Panther Mt. is an easy "ladies' climb." Stony Creek and Ampersand 
Mts. are well worth climbing, but the inexperienced should employ a guide. 

On Follensby (or Follansbee) Pond was the camp of the "ten scholars," the 
story of whose expedition Emerson told in his poem, Ttie AJirondacs. W. J. Stillman, 
then a young landscape peunter, had visited this region and become acqueiinted with its 
beauties. At Cambridge he awakened interest in the place to the degree that in 1857 a 
journey of exploration was made through the surrounding country, and in August, 1 858, a 
party came to this place to camp. The members of the party were Lowell, Emerson, 
Agassiz, Jeffries Wyman, Estes Howe, John Holmes, Judge Hoar, Horatio Woodman, 
Amos Binney, and W. J. Stillman. It is not strange that the visit of this rare company is 
still remembered. Lowell is spoken of as having been the leading spirit. Agassiz and 
Jeffries Wyman found entertainment for themselves and others in observing plant and 
animal life. Emerson sought the seclusion congenial to his nature or studied with intere^ 
the habits of the guides, who as he learned reversed the customs of the outside world, putting 
on their hats when they enter a house and their coats when they go to bed. But even 
Emerson finally caught the desire to get a deer and made an effort at hunting, with eagerness 
as great as his lack of skill. Longfellow professed to explain his not becoming a member 
of the party by fear due to the fact that Emerson took a gun. "Camp Maple" was a name 
chosen by Lowell, but "Philosophers' Camp" is the familiar designation. So pleased were 
all with the experiment that they planned to establish a permanent camp on Ampersand 
Pond, but the Civil War put an end to the project. Follensby Pond lies within what is 
now a private park owned by Messrs. Titus B. and Ferns J. Meigs. 

Near the southern end of Upper Saranac are two hotels, Waw- 
beek and Saranac Club. Rustic Lodge has been closed. It is said 
that its owners, the Messrs. Swenson, will erect a camp on the site. 

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LAKE CLEAR JUNCTION is the point from which diverge 
Paul Smith's Electric Railway running to Paul Smith's hotel and the rail- 
road which runs to Saranac Lake village (Lower Saranac Lake), and Lake 
Placid. Fare to Paul Smith's, fifty cents. Through sleeping cars from 
New York run over both these roads. 

Paul Smith's is preeminently the place frequented by those who 
wish to visit the real wilderness without being deprived of the luxuries of 
life. At the door of the hotel one may step from a Pullman car in which 
he has come from the Grand Central Station without a change. Around 

are thousands of acres of timber, and 
in the air is the odor of the ever- 
green. A park of 30,000 acres 
containing miles of forest and the 
St. Regis and Osgood Lakes is open 
to sportsmen. But in the neighbor- 
hood of the hotel the features that 
would be forbidding to those un- 
accustomed to them have been 
smoothed away. The wood's roads 
are made fit for the use of the ele- 
gant turnouts which are provided 
by the hotel stables. On the shores 
of the lakes toward which face the 
hotel verandas are not rude hunters' 
cabins as one might infer from their 
wild appearance when seen at a dis- 
tance. Instead on Upper St. Regis 
are numerous elaborate summer 
" homes of well-known millionaires. 

The hotel, which can accommodate some five hundred guests, provides 
everything to be expected by those who wish the best and are willing 
to pay for it. The table has always enjoyed a reputation for ex- 
ceptional excellence. There is opportunity for all sorts of out-door recrea- 
tion for the actively inclined and the elegancies of polite society for 
those who prefer less strenuous amusement. A casino, tastefully designed 
and furnished, affords a place in which to enjoy in comfort a game of 
billiards or of bridge. A baseball nine each year disputes preeminence 
with rivals from some of the principal resorts. Boats of all kinds and sizes 
may be rented, and there is a colony of guides at hand to pilot the inex- 
perienced on either land or water. 

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Paul Smith is acknowledged premier of Adirondack hotel proprietors. He originally 
bore the name of Apollo Austin Smith. "Apollo" was first corrupted to "Pol," which 
afterward came to be written m the form now familiar. As a young man he was a guide 
and kept a small hotel on Loon Lake, in 1861 he opened on Lower St. Regis Lake the 
modest house out of which has grown one of the best known hotels in this country. The 
proprietor of it has come to be known first as a royal entertainer, next as a sagacious and 
enterprising business man and the owner of large wealth. At the age of eighty-two, Mr. 
Smith still retains a keen interest in affairs and remarkable bodily vigor, though the manage- 
ment of the details of the extensive business that centers around the hotel property is now in 
younger hands. 

The "camps" of the members of the millionaire colony on the St. Regis 
lakes form a group of the most beautiful and elaborate summer homes in 
the Adirondacks. Some of these present striking variations from the familiar 
rustic camp, more or less conventionalized, that is found on Raquette and 
Upper Saranac lakes and elsewhere. The first to make a wide departure from 
traditional styles was Mr. Frederick W. Vanderbilt, who imported archi- 
tects from far Japan and had grounds laid out in Japanese fashion and a 
group of houses built with curving roofs and other quaint oriental features. 
Mr. George H. Earle achieved individuality by another departure entirely 
new to this regiop. He built at Katia, his summer home, a tasteful strudure 
made of cobblestones laid in black mortar. Mr. S. J. Drake has made use 
of the Swiss chalet as an architectural motive, uniting it with the cobblestone 
method of building. 

Among the other owners of summer homes on this group of lakes are 
Hon. Whitelaw Reid, Mr. Anson Phelps Stokes, Judge W. K. Townsend, 
Mr. A. W. Durkee, Mrs. Robert Hoe, and Mrs. Clarence R. Britton. 

From Gabriels one may drive sixteen miles to Meacham Lake, 
where is the Meacham Lake Hotel (Address, Meacham Lake), and four- 
teen miles farther to Lake Duane and the Hotel Ayers (Address, 
Ayers). The latter place is more easily reached from Malone, fifteen 
miles distant. At Gabriels is a sanatarium for consumptives, under the man- 
agement of the Sisters of Mercy. 

Rainbow Lake has several houses where boarders are taken. 

At Lake Kushaqua is the Stony wold Sanatarium. 

LOON LAKE is a station of both the New York Central and the 
Delaware & Hudson railroads. The Loon Lake HouSC is a resort of 
high standing. Its surroundings are most attractive. Address, Loon Lake. 



SARANAC LAKE Nation (Lower Saranac Lake) lies at the 
junction of the New York Central and the D. &] H., on the way to Lake 
Placid. This enterprising village is well known as a resort for persons 
afflicted with pulmonary troubles. 

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LA-KE PLACID is at the end of railroad travel in this direction 
and deserves to be the culmination of a journey that presents so many 
natural beauties. 

in any direction as one looks from near the shore of Placid and 
Mirror Lakes, rise verdure-clad mountains which in endless succession 
stretch away to the picturesquely broken outline of the distant horizon, 
where Marcy, Mclntyre, Haystack, Whiteface, and other peaks rise 
above the neighboring heights. The outlook is serene and profoundly im- 
pressive. In its majestic repose the mountain scenery of this region is less 
overpowering than that of some of the highest mountain chains of the world, 
but many find it even more attractive. Under changing circumstances the 
aspect of the scene is interestingly varied. When the outlines of the moun- 
tains are touched by dawn, or their broken surface lies under the shifting 
lights of mid-day, and again when the summits are wrapped with lowering 
clouds or fade out in the shadows of the night, a mobile and always beauti- 
ful panorama meets the eye. Lakes Mirror and Placid, themselves some 
2000 feet above the level of the sea, lie within this girdle of mountains. 
They are of exquisite beauty and complete the picture that meets the eye 
of the spectator. 

Though Placid's waters are deep-dyed with an Aegean blue, and her 
mountains, serene and venerable with their millions of years, whether somber 
or smiling according to their mood, the visitor need not depend on merely 
the immediate spectacle of this "Garden of the Gods" for his pleas- 
ures. There are ample opportunities for all sorts of recreation. There 
are numberless expeditions to sequestered spots to be taken and 
Jacob's Ladders to be climbed by those mighty of limb and great of 
ambition. 

The mountains are completely covered with forests of evergreen 
and the deciduous trees native to the Adirondacks. Trails lead to 
points of interest apart from the highways and to the tops of some of the 
mountains. On the higher elevations the view is extended and richly re- 
pays the effort of the ascent. Whiteface reaches 4872 feet above sea level 
and nearly 3000 feet above the level of Lake Placid. From its summit 
Lake George, Lake Champlain, and the White Mountains can be seen; 
near by on the south are the other principal peaks of the Adirondacks, and 
on the north and west the gaze traverses the undulating stretch of mountain, 
valley and forest that lies away toward the St. Lawrence River. Good 
roads radiate from Lake Placid in all directions, leading to the Keene Valley 
and other beautiful spots which may be reached in easy excursions with 
carriage or automobile. 

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The elevation which bounds Lake Mirror and Lake Placid on the 
south is probably the result of glacial action which at some distant day piled 
up the barrier that now confines the water of the lakes. The primeval 
forest about this spot was broken generations ago. 

That remote epoch of the wilderness about which Adirondack Murray 
wrote has been superseded at Lake Placid, as at most other places, by a new 
Golden Age. The magic of wealth and enterprise have brought to this se- 
cluded spot the appurtenances of metropolitan life. The discomforts once 
attendant upon a sojourn in the woods are banished. But the pristine grandeur 
and beauty of Lake Placid still remain; they will disappear only with her moun- 
tains, skies, and waters, and if one has visited her haunts and wandered in 
her ways, there will be found written in his heart, as in that of the British 
queen of old, not indeed "Calais" but "Placid." 

Lake Placid station is reached by through trains via the New York 
Central and Delaware & Hudson railroads, there being a through sleeping 
car from New York via the New York Central the entire year. Through 
parlor and sleeping cars are operated during the summer season from Buffalo, 
and sleeping cars from Boston and Philadelphia. One may leave New York, 
Boston, Buffalo, or Philadelphia in the evening and arrive at Lake Placid 
in the morning ; or leave New York or Buffalo m the forenoon and arrive 
at Lake Placid in the evening. Local passengers for Lake Placid change at 
Lake Clear Junction. Fare from Saranac Lake to Lake Placid, 30 cents. 
The station is newly built and of suitable appearance, but its immediate 
surroundings do not suggest the attractions which _await the visitor farther 
on. The stages of the Lake Placid Transfer Company carry passengers 
to the hotels, which are in most cases a mile or more distant. Fare, with 

hand baggage, 25 and 50 cents. 

The road ascends a steep hill 
past Newman post-office to Lake 
Placid, an incorporated village of 
some 1 600 inhabitants. It has electnc 
lights, water- works, and other im- 
provements that give evidence of 
local enterprise and public spirit. In 
1908, thirty thousand dollars were 
spent on concrete walks and mac- 
adam streets. There is a fine public 
school, also a public library and reading room. St. Eustace by the Lakes 
is an Episcopal church of attractive design. Lake Placid has also a Metho- 
dist, a Baptist, and a Roman Catholic church. 

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Amusements in the most complete diversity are offered to those who 
desire entertainment that is not far to seek. Public and private launches, 
canoes, and rowboats abound. Excellent golf links and tennis courts are 
maintained. Occasional tournaments afford agreeable diversion. Music is 
furnished at the principal hotels and frequent assemblies provide evening 
entertainment. The larger hotels are well equipped to satisfy a demand for 
luxuries, and smaller houses meet simpler tastes at corresponding rates. 

Main Street follows the we^ shore of Mirror Lake. Here are the shops, 
and by this street one reaches most of the hotels. The Grand View is 
the first of the larger hotels to which the visitor comes. It stands on a high 
hill overlooking Mirror Lake. The view which may be seen from this hotel 
may justly be described as "grand." See picture on page 64. The hotel is 
a large three and one-half story structure, with accommodations for three 
hundred guests. It has a sun parlor, which is an enjoyable feature. There 
is an especially fine ball room, where dancing is enjoyed every even- 
ing. Complimentary card parties, at which the prizes are furnished 
by the management, are held weekly. Guests not only enjoy the usual 
outdoor amusements but are provided with a gymnasium, bowling alley 
and billiard room for indoor recreation. There is an elevator, which is a 
rare feature. Rates, $4.00 a day and^upwards; $2 1 .00 a week and upwards. 

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The Pines 
Stevens House Annex 



iMiKKciK Lake 



Turning up Signal Hill, the high ground between Mirror Lake and 
Lake Placid, the road leads to the superb site of the Stevens House. 
It is generally agreed that this hotel occupies the most sightly posi- 
tion of any hotel in the Adirondacks. In every direction the view is mag- 
nificent. The mountains, in a complete circle, present an impressive asped 
from every quarter of the compass. In the front lies Mirror Lake; in the 
rear is the south end of Lake Placid, with a Reamer landing on the hotel 
grounds. The well kept slopes of the hill provide an ideal place for golf 
and other outdoor sports. There are broad verandas of nearly a quarter of 
a mile in total extent encircling the hotel. Day after day one finds here a 
delicious breeze, when New Yorkers are sweltering in the heat. The 
parlors and dining room are spacious and cheery. The fare is excellent. 
The house has, of course, the minor comforts of other well appointed hotels. 
It would be difficult to name others that can boast a combination of so 
many attractions. Mr. George A. Stevens, the proprietor, has been one 
of the leading figures in the development of Lake Placid. Large of body 
and large of soul, he condudts a house which in all its arrangements reflects 
his genial personality. Rates, $4.00 a day and upwards ; by the week, 
$2 1 .00 and upwards. 

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The road by which one ascends 
the hill to the Stevens House leads 
also to The Pines. This is a large 
private house adapted to the enter- 
tainment of guests, of whom it can 
accommodate fifty. There is a com- 
paratively new, well finished main 
structure of two and one-half stories 
with good sized, comfortably fur- 
nished rooms and an annex to pro- 
vide for overflow. The house is 
flanked attractively by a group of 
trees from which the place takes its 
name. It has a broad veranda from 
which one gets a part of the view 
that may be seen from the Stevens House. Visitors may here avail them- 
selves of the delightful associations of Lake Placid at a moderate expense. 
Rates, $2.50 a day and upward; $10 to $20 a week. 

Ju^ beyond is The Belmont, a three-story house recently enlarged 
and refurnished. The rooms are airy; the house is heated by water and 
lighted by electricity, has modern improvements, and is of well kept and sub- 
stantial appearance. It is one of the smaller and moderate-priced hotels of 
Lake Placid and enjoys a good reputation for the character of its accommoda- 
tions and the treatment of its guests. There is a pleasant grove in the rear. 
Rates, $2.50 a day and upward ; $12 to $25 a week. 

The road which, instead of ascending Signal Hill, follows around 
Mirror Lake passes in front of the Lakeside Inn. Within a stone's 
throw is Mirror Lake, across which one looks toward Wilmington Notch and 
the range of mountains that sweeps thence to the south. The Inn has tennis 
and croquet grounds and the privileges of the Lake Placid Golf Links. The 
house is a commodious three-story building, lighted by electricity and heated 
by ^eam. Rates, $2.50 to $3.00 a day; $14 to $18 a week. 

Following the street is a fringe of handsome cottages, the summer 
homes of well-known visitors. Most of the Lake Placid cottages are 
in the ^le of modern all-the-year houses. Owners of such residences 
are Mr. A. J. Roach. Mr. George H. Daniels, Mr. W. B. McElroy, 
Mrs. Malcolm McDonald, and Mrs. James Hardie. Mr. Victor 
Herbert has a Swiss chalet. Continuing in the direction indicated, 
one arrives at the narrow neck of land which separates Placid and 
Mirror Lakes. 

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The road proceeding a half-mile or so farther arrives at The 
Ruisseaumont, which is on abruptly rising ground on the eastern shore 
of Lake Placid. It can be discerned in the accompanying picture at the 
farther end of the narrow strip of land between the lakes. It stands about 
a hundred feet above the level of the water and has a superb outlook to- 
ward the west, where Mt. McKenzie is the dominating feature. The 
picture on the front cover of this book shows the view from The Ruisseau- 
mont. The forest, with its fragrant evergreens comes up close to the hotel, 
the location of which is secluded but easily accessible by both carriage and 
Reamer. Water craft of all kinds are constantly passing. The building is 
comparatively new and of modern design. It has electric lights, suites with 
private bath, telephone, telegraph, and every such facility demanded by 
comfort and convenience. There are tennis courts on the grounds, and the 
Lake Placid Golf Links are near by. Automobile parties are catered to 
by the hotel. Rates, $4 a day and upwards ; by the week $2 1 and 
upwards. 

Whiteface Inn is a large hotel of excellent character, situated on 
the western shore of Lake Placid. It may be reached by Reamer or by 
carriage from Lake Placid village and Nation. 

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Undekcliff 

Those who desire to enjoy the magnificent scenery of this region and 
to be near the water, but who prefer to be somewhat removed from the 
gaiety that centers around the main resorts, will go to Undercliff. It is 
situated in a charming location on the margin of the lake near its head and 
with a close view of Mt. Whiteface. Its setting and general aspect are 



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among the most picturesque that can be found. It is completely set into the 
woods which Wretch away in the rear with numerous inviting trails. This 
is not a hotel of the usual type. The guests live in cottages, the majority of 
which are taken for the season. Meals are served in a central dining room. 
There is a casino with boathouse where boats may be hired. Accommo- 
dations are provided for I 00 guests. Undercliff is a po^ office during the 
summer. Rates $3 a day; $15 to $25 a week. 

Among the first things which a visitor should enjoy is a ride on Lake 
Placid. A Reamer leaves the Stevens House dock four times daily during 
the summer. Round trip, fifty cents. Most of the camps are on the 
western shore of the lake. In many cases these are so hidden among the 
trees, that only glimpses of their approach from the lake suggest what sylvan 
charms are concealed from view. Information about camp sites can be 
obtained from Mr. P. E. Lewis, Lake Placid. 

Lake Placid Club. This largest of Adirondack resorts was started 
in 1895 by a group of prominent university officers, with the purpose of 
approximating as fast as practicable to an ideal vacation home for cultivated 

people, especially those with child- 
ren. Many laughed at its new ideas 
and said its initials P. C. stood for 
"Placid Cranks," and that it could 
not last over two years. But it has 
clung without wavering to those 
peculiar notions for fifteen years 
and has had unprecedented pros- 
perity. In 1895 it had a $5500 
house on five acres, with two horses 
and two boats, and by hiring two 
adjoining cottages, crowded thirty 
into its dining room. In 1 908 it 
had one hundred and ninety-seven 
buildings on its six thousand acre 
estate, with one hundred and sixty- 
four boats, ninety-two horses, two 
hundred and twenty-five cows, thousands of white leghorns on its poultry farm, 
and a family of six hundred and ninety-six guests and over three hundred em- 
ployes. It has twenty-one farms averaging one hundred and sixty acres 
each, saw-mill, store, and machinery in a dozen shops, which do all its 
construction and repairing, no outside labor being employed. There are 

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four clubhouses, over fifty cottages, three gas plants, and three fire com- 
panies with many times more and better apparatus than is usual. A central 
plant supplies heat and power to the shops, creamery, laundry, stable, dry 
kiln, steam fire pumps, and winter clubhouse. 

The club privileges are open only to members and their guests, or to 
visitors holding privilege cards, which each member has a right to issue ; but 
callers interested in the great plant are always welcome. It is "one of the 
things to see" for all this section. Visitors should not miss the eighteen and 
nine hole golf courses with five miles of fairgreen, with two nine hole putting 
courses, large central golf house, and dozen shelters. Adjoining are the 
baseball stadium and twenty-one P orest courts, a single block including tennis, 
roque, croquet, basketball, bowling greens, quoits, clock golf and tether ball, 
where in winter a nnk is kept in fine condition for hockey, curling, and skat- 
ing. Next Forest courts is the Fore^ theater, Arden, where Ben Greets 
woodland players give their best each year. There are daily recitals by 
the club quartette, which has won distinction for its professional skill and the 
artistic merit of its programme. 

Other points of interest are the Fore^ library, the $30,000 cooler 
and food store, the Golfery, Garage, $30,000 laundry, the machines, 
shops, and workmen's rooms ; the white kitchen with tiled floors and wain- 
scoting and hotel equipment, and the immense Forest or Lakeside game 
rooms, with over thirty indoor games for bad weather. The annual float, 
about August 20, has long been famous for beauty of decoration through- 
out, and the annual Indian council fire, about September 3, delights visitors 
lucky enough to have invitations to this night in the forest, when the six 
Iroquois nations, in gay Indian costume, reproduce with great care and dignity 
some of the ceremonials of preceding centuries. 

There is no bar, cigar stand, or stock ticker ; no liquor is ever served in the 
public rooms ; and there is no noise from 1 p. m. to 8 a. m. It is a place 

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of simplicity, early hours, and constant outdoor life. All display is avoided. 
Its menu is simple and its furniture plain. No man ever wears evening dress, 
and the ladies who overdress invite reminder by ladies on the council that 
it is a violation of long established club custom. No expense is spared to 
insure healthfulness in food supplies. Water is from the Brookwood 
springs, milk and cream from the club herd of tuberculin tested high grade 
cows. At the club farms are sanitary stables, and at the poultry farm 
trained experts use every precaution known to science in breeding, feeding, 
and care to secure the most perfect eggs. 

The club is not a public house. Some would find its peculiar features 
an annoyance. Those who like it are enthusiastic. 

Drives. Three main highways lead from Lake Placid, one toward the 
Saranac lakes and Paul Smith's on the west, one to the Cascade lakes, 
Keene Valley, Elizabethtown, and Westport on the east, and another 
toward the Wilmington Notch and Ausable River and Chasm on the 
northeast, with intermediate points reached in easy excursions. 

A place of historic intere^ is John Brown's grave at North 
Elba, it may be reached by an easy two-mile walk or drive. 

John Brown was born in Tornngton, Connedlicut, in 1800. He was of flurdy 
Puritan flock; both his grandfathers were captains in the Revolution. When John Brown 
was five years old his father removed to Ohio. The son grew to manhood there, follow- 
ing his father's occupation as a tanner and wool dealer. With varying fortunes he also lived 
in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. An ardent abolitionifl he went in 1849 to settle on a 
trad of land in the Adirondaclcs on which the philanthropic, Gerrit Smith, had undertaken 
to establish a colony of freed slaves. At the time of the slavery diflurbances in Kansas he 
went there and took an adive part. He was a man of deep religious feeling and intense 
convidion, and his life was consecrated with burning zeal to the anti-slavery cause. He be- 
lieved that he was delegated by Heaven to do the work which he undertook. Wendell Phillips 
called him "a regular old Cromwellian dug up from two centuries." His character and 
worth are testified to by the confidence and resped in which he was held by men like 
Theodore Parker, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and Gerrit Smith. In 1859 he matured 
a plan for starting a movement to liberate the slaves by force, and on October 1 6 he set his 
projed on foot by seizing the government arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. He was ac- 
companied by only thirteen white followers and five slaves. The next day he was taken 
prisoner by the government troops, ten of his companions being killed in the flruggle. He 
was tried, condemned to death, and hung at Charlestown, Virginia, December 2, 1859. 
Recklessly visionary, so far as immediate results were concerned, and destined to certain de- 
feat his plan appears to us; and yet the blow which he struck is acknowledged to have been 
of the greatest importance in its consequences and deserving to be reckoned among the 
causes of the downfall of slavery. After his death, his body was brought back to North 
Elba m accordance with his request and buried beside a huge rock, where he had previously 
chosen his last resting-place. Some years later steps were taken by Miss Kate Field and 
others to procure funds for the purchase of the old homestead, and in 1895, through Mr. 
Henry Clews, it was deeded to the State. 

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LAKE PLACID 
CAMPS 

CAMP SITES AND 

UiMIUPROVED 

PROPERTY 

<I AN EXCEPTIONALLY Llli- 
ERAL OFFER on a tract of un- 
improved property. One hundred and 
twenty acres on the shore of Lake 
Placid now for sale at a reasonable 
figure, so reasonable that the present 
owner will give a bond guaranteeing 
to pu' chase at the end of five years, 
should a purchaser wish to sell at that 
time, paving the original purchase 
price and interest thereon for the five 
years at 6 per cent. The above tract 
has 2SOU feet of shore line. 



OTHER beauti- 
ful camp and 
bungalow sites 
for sale. Sunmier 
camps and cot- 
tages for rent ^ 



Apply to 

P. E. LEWIS 

Lake Placid. 
N.Y. 



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ADIRONDACK 

VIEWS 

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WHITEc^ COLOR 

FINEST VIKW.S 
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MOSES & CO. 

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. 



'HPO enjoy thoroughly the beau- 
tiful drives for which the 
Lake Placid region is renowned 
one must choose suitable vehi- 
cles and well trained horses. 
Runabouts, Traps, and Surreys 
— the kind that alw^ays return 
to the stable without mishap — 
can be obtained at the livery of 
BREWSTER C§i WARE, Lake 
Placid. The horses from this 
establishment are sturdy, reli- 
able, and good drivers. 

Brewster & Ware 

Lake Placid, N.Y. 




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WESTPORT TO LAKE PLACID 

Lake Placid may be reached by carriage from Westport on the D. 
& H. Railroad and Lake Champlain. The trip may be made in either 
direction by stage or, with greater comfort, by private conveyance, which 




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may be obtained at the Westport Inn Livery or from Brewster and Ware, 
Lake Placid. Trains at Westport are met daily by stages from Elizabeth- 
town (seven miles distant) ; fare, $ 1 .00. 

ElizabethtOWn is a secluded and quiet village on the border be- 
tween the cultivated region and the mountain wilderness. It is a place of 
restful beauty in a setting of rugged grandeur. Among the places at which 
summer visitors find entertainment are The Windsor and Deer's Head Inn. 
Stage daily, except Sunday, in both directions between Elizabethtown and 
Lake Placid (twenty-six miles) ; fare, $3.00 ; to Keene Center only, in 
either direction, $1.50. 

The drive from Elizabethtown to Lake Placid, together with the side 
drive from Keene Center to Keene Heights through the celebrated Keene 
Valley, affords a marvel of varied and glorious scenery. Elizabethtown lies 
in part on a plateau five hundred and fifty feet in altitude. At the western 
outskirts of the village, the road makes an immediate descent to the level of a 

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brook called The Branch, which just east of the valley unites with the 
Bouquet River. Leaving to the southwest the pyramid of Cobble Hill, 
the road continues to skirt along the brook, ascending in a generally west- 
ward direction for seven or eight miles. Just across the brook rise abruptly 
the steep sides of Knob Lock Mt. A little farther on, to the left and south, 
is the still higher peak of Tripod Mt. On the right lies Little Pitchoff, a 
spur of Hurricane Mt. Beyond these three peaks Baxter Mt. stands so 
near to the left that it shuts off what would otherwise be a delightful view 
in the direction of Keene Valley. 

At this point the road turns to the northeast, passing over the brow of 
what is locally called Spruce Hill, another spur of Hurricane Mt. Here 
the altitude is greater and commands a more distant view. To the south- 
west is Mt. Marcy; and nearer by, somewhat to the north of Marcy, lies 
Mount Porter. Other mountains and hills intervene and overlap each 
other, and finally, almost straight ahead — that is northwest — Mount White- 
face looms into view. Whiteface has such characteristic markings that the 
tourist soon learns to know it, and it seems like meeting an old friend 
when its familiar face shows itself at some favorable bend in the road. 

The country begins to show more signs of settlement as Keene Center 
is neared, and the openness allows a broader prospect. Much of the way 
thus far the roadside has been wooded, with only an occasional forlorn 
looking house. Some few miles before reaching Keene Center there is a 
turn to the left leading to Keene Valley, and a little way farther is a road turn- 
ing to the right that leads to Hurricane Lodge. If one is traveling by stage, he 
will keep on to Keene Center. This is a hamlet of a few houses, a small 
store or two, post office, telegraph office, church, and a hotel where the 
^ages from Elizabethtown and Lake Placid stop for dinner, ($1.00). 

To the west is seen Cascade Notch and, somewhat to the north, the 
cone of Whiteface. Hurricane Lodge is perched on the side of Hurricane 
Mt., two and one-half miles away. A private cottage one mile east of the 
Lodge, at an altitude of two thousand four hundred feet, is said to be the 
most elevated abode in the Adirondacks. Another attraction of Hurricane 
Mountain is the Glenmore Summer School, established in 1 889 by Professor 
Thomas Davidson. Among the lecturers have been professors representing 
the universities of Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Cornell, Chicago, and Magill. 
About two miles northwest of Keene Center are Clifford Falls, on a tribu- 
tary of the Ausable. They can be reached by wagon road, and the fall of 
water, sixty feet, into a wild chasm is well worth seeing. 

If possible, the tourist should not pass Keene Center until he has taken 
a trip south to Keene Heights and the neighboring points of interest. Keene 

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Center is at the foot of the Keene Valley. A good road follows up the 
east branch of the Ausable River five miles to the village of Keene 
Valley and four miles farther to Keene Heights, which is at the head of 
this charming valley. Keene Valley is a stretch of quiet, pastoral beauty 
surrounded by magnificent granite-capped mountains that rise abruptly on 
all sides. The land is somewhat cultivated, but a sufficient number of trees 
have been left in the wood-crowned knolls, clumps of evergreens, and 
graceful elms and maples along the river bank, to make an exquisite picture. 
There is a theory that a lake once filled this basin, and along the western 
side its beach is still pointed out. The facfl that the mountains rise so 
abruptly, instead of sloping gradually from the plain, indicates that the bot- 
tom of the valley was filled in and made level with sediment brought down 
from the mountains through long ages. 

Falls and chasms are many in this region, either on the Ausable or its 
tributaries of mountain streams. One-half mile south from Keene Center 
are Sherburne Falls on the Ausable near the main road. Their greatest 
height is about fifty feet. One and one-half miles farther to the south are 
Hulls Falls, also on the Ausable. Phelps Falls are situated on a brook 
near its entrance into the Ausable, just north of the village of Keene Valley. 
They are of interest firom being close to the former home of the noted 
guide, Orson S Phelps. From Prospect Hill near this place can be ob- 
tained one of the best views to be had in the valley. 

Leaving Prospect Hill behind, the traveler soon reaches the village of 
Keene Valley. Here are several comfortable hotels, of which The Crawford 
is one. The village is small, but contains a number of summer cottages. 

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Not only here in the village, but all along the valley are desirable boarding 
houses. Keene Valley, although it has become a somevs'hat popular sum- 
mer resort, has since its early discovery by the painters, Messrs. T. S. Per- 
kins and R. M. Shurtleff, appealed more to artists and other lovers of nature 
than to those fond of fashion and display of wealth. Keene Valley is of 
considerable vv^idth in the northern part, but towards the south it narrows so 
that in places it seems scarcely wide enough for both the river and road. 
From the village of Keene Valley to the foot of Lower Ausable Lake runs 
a bicycle path. North of the village the road is excellent, so that it is pos- 
sible to wheel ten miles through this superb scenery. 

Four miles south of Keene Valley is Keene Heights, the plateau at 
the head of the valley. On this plateau, surrounded by mountains making 
a natural amphitheatre, stands St. Hubert's Inn, at an altitude of about 
1 800 feet. The mountam scenery is almost Swiss-like in its grandeur 
and sublimity. St. Hubert's Inn stands in the midst of the principal Adiron- 
dack peaks. Directly to the east towers Giant Mt., down which comes 
Roaring Brook, which is noted for its falls. From a perpendicular granite 
wall the water leaps a distance of three hundred feet down so high a preci- 
pice that it breaks into sparkling drops before reaching the bottom, where 
it collects again to dash over rocks through a more gradual descent. These 
falls are only twenty rods from the road which leads from St. Hubert's to 
Port Henry. Only a mile farther on this road is Chapel Pond, up on the 
side of Giant Mt. Several hundred feet above this is a very small pond 
called Giant Washbowl. These are of interest on account of their 
wild, weird setting. The peak of Giant Mt. is of white rock, if it is lime- 
stone, it must have been formed there when the mountain was still under 
water in some past geologic age. The telegraph, telephone, and post 
office address of St. Hubert's Inn is Beede, New York, having received 
the name from the famous woodsman, Smith Beede, who once lived on 
the site. St. Hubert's Inn is not strictly a hotel, but a clubhouse belong- 
ing to the proprietors of the Adirondack Mountain Reserve, 

at the entrance to which the Inn stands. A tourist can get entertainment 
here for two days, on application to the superintendent, and for longer time 
on introduction by a club member. 

Stretching west and south from St. Hubert's Inn is the Adirondack 
Mountain Reserve of 26,000 acres. In it are Upper and Lower Ausable 
Lakes, both noted for their beauty, and many stately mountain peaks, in- 
cluding Noonmark near the eastern boundary, Bear Den, Dial, Nipple 
Top, and Colvin south of the river and lakes, and Haystack, Basin, Saddle- 
back, Gothic, Saw Teeth, Armstrong, and Wolf Jaws in the northern half, 

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while the western boundary includes the eastern slope of Mount Marcy. 
Many other high mountains are just outside the border. This region is the 
mountain section of the Adirondacks in distinction from the lake sections of 
the northwest and southwest. With Mount Marcy as a center, the peaks 
lie within a radius of ten miles. The association which owns the Adirondack 
Mountain Reserve has enacted strict laws for members and visitors, in order 
to preserve the virgin forest and to protect the fish and game. Visitors are 
very welcome, provided they conform to the regulations. By paying toll 
they may drive over the good private road from St. Hubert's to the foot of 
Lower Ausable Lake, a distance of about four miles. Under certain re- 
strictions as to camps and length of stay, and with authorized guides, they 
may use the trails and see all there is to see. 

The lakes and river lie in almost a straight line running northeast and 
southwest. The road follows the river rather closely and affords a most 
delightful woods drive. Near the foot of the Lower lake, and northwest 
of the outlet, is the beautiful Rainbow Falls on Rainbow Brook. At the 
falls proper the water descends vertically a distance of 125 to 140 feet. 
Lower Ausable Lake lies in a narrow pass between Colvin and Saw 
Teeth mountains, which rise so precipitously that foot passage along the 

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shores is extremely difficult, if not quite impossible. On the southwestern 
shore, near the foot of the lake, nature has carved high up on a projecting 
rock the features of a man ; this is called Indian Face. The beauty of this 
lake and its surroundings is weird and awe-inspiring. Upper Ausable 
Lake is quite the reverse, being mild and peaceful. Both of these lakes 
are about two miles in length and not over a half mile wide at the greatest 
expanse. The Lower lake is only a few rods wide. A trail a mile long 
leads near the connecting brook from the Lower to the Upper lake. Some 
consider the Upper lake the loveliest water of the Adirondacks. 
It is surrounded by a circle of mountains that overlap each other in charm- 
iag light and shade and descend gradually to the shores. The virgin forest 
on these slopes is still undisturbed. One of the ways of ascending Mount 
Marcy is reached from these lakes by boating up the inlet to Marcy Brook, 
whence a trail leads past Lake Tear-of-the-Clouds to the summit of Marcy. 
After taking this trip through Keene Valley, the tourist should return 
to Keene Center and drive to Lake Placid through sixteen miles of nature's 
beauties. The road passes to the north for a considerable distance from 
the village, leading up over a cleared hill from which is to be had a good 
view across the valley and up the slope of East Hill to Hurricane Lodge. 
East Hill is the name given to the western slope of Hurricane Mt. Then 
the road turns to the southwest through scenery growing more rugged until 
a narrow pass is reached, which is wild and weird in the extreme. Here 
lie the Cascade Lakes. The road skirts the lakes to the right, where 
there is scarcely room for it between the water and the precipitous wall of 



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WHERE TO GO IN THE ADIRONDACKS 

Pitchoff Mt., which rises abruptly from the shore. Just as abruptly on the 
opposite side tower the sheer rocks of Long Pond or Cascade Mt. These 
mountains are almost bare of vegetation. A scraggly cedar or a pin cherry 
tree has occasionally found root on a ledge or in a crevice. The Lower 
lake, which is the first one reached on this drive, is about a mile long and 
so narrow that it seems like a river. It is separated from the Upper lake 
by a strip of land only about eighteen rods wide, by which stands Cascade 
Lake House, facing the Cascade, which in the wet season pours over the 
face of Long Pond mountain, falling nearly a thousand feet. 

Beyond the lakes the road winds around the southern base of Pitchoff 
Mountain, turning somewhat gradually to a northern direction, until it meets 
the point where a turn to the right leads on the old road along the north- 
western side of Pitchoff Mountain. By turning here to the left, one soon 
drives directly west along an open plateau which reveals on the southern 
horizon a magnificent stretch of mountain scenery. This prospect is known 
as Ames Mountain View and is six miles from Lake Placid. Farthest to 
the east in the highest tier is Mount Marcy, then west of that lies Mount 
Colden, which has the appearance of having lost a slice from its western 
slope. One can Jalainly see what a deep, narrow gorge there is between 
Mount Colden and Mount Mclntyre, next at the west. In this gorge lies 
Avalanche Lake at an altitude of 2663 feet. It is a small lake, but very 
deep, and its water is very cold. It is separated from Lake Colden, which 
is a half mile farther south, by debris which at some time in the past 
came down from Mount Colden. These two lakes are in surroundings 
the wildest in the woods. Their outlet is the Opalescent River, which a 
little to the southwest joins the outlet of Lake Henderson and Lake Sanford 
and goes on to swell the east branch of the Hudson. The lakes in 
Avalanche Pass are not visible from the road, but there is plain indication 
of the notch where they lie. At the west of Mount Mclntyre tower the 
rocky cliffs of Wallface Mt., and even at this distant view, one can get some 
idea of the wildness and solemn majesty of Indian Pass, which lies between. 
Driving on, the post office of North Elba is soon reached. Here a road 
turns directly south and leads six miles to Heart Lake (Lake Clear). 
One can see the shadow of the depression where it lies just back of Mount 
Jo and at the foot of Mount Mclntyre. This lake belongs to Lake Placid 
Club. On its bank once stood Adirondack Lodge, but in the summer of 
1903 a fire destroyed the Lodge and surrounding woods. Adirondack 
Lodge made a convenient stopping place on the way to the neighboring 
points of interest. The excellent trail from here still affords the easiest road 
to the summit of Mount Marcy, seven and one-half miles away. Mt. 

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Avalanche Lake 



Photografih by Cnester 1). Moses e~ Coiiipniiy 



Marcy reaches an altitude of 5344 ft. and is the highest peak in the 
Adirondacks. There are also good trails from here to Avalanche Lake, 
Lake Golden, Mount Mclntyre, and to Indian Pass, and the deserted vil- 
lage of Upper Iron Works beyond. From the top of Mount Marcy one 
can descend to the southern side and reach the trail at Lake Tear-of-the- 
Clouds leading to the Ausable Lakes. No one should attempt these tramps 
without a competent guide. From the turn leading to Heart Lake it is only 
a little more than four miles to Lake Placid. 

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DELAWARE AND HUDSON RAILROAD 
ADIRONDACK DIVISION 

The Adirondack Division of the D. & H. leads from SARATOGA 
SPRINGS to North Creek. Most of the way it runs alongside the 
Hudson River, here a narrow stream. The scenery is not unlike that on 
the lower waters of this river. Partly cultivated, partly wooded hillsides 
and low mountains rise from the banks. The railroad traverses a semi- 
pastoral country through a succession of farms and small villages. At mo^ 
places boarders can find entertainment at modest rates. 

Had ley is the station of Lake Luzerne. This lake, which resembles 
in shape the lake of similar name in Switzerland, lies near the junction of 
the Hudson and Sacandaga rivers. It is a place of considerable beauty of 
a quiet sort. The surroundings are wooded, but not wild or rugged. The 
Wayside Inn is a commendable hotel. 

The Glen is picturesque and has some interesting drives. Near by 
are Friend's Lake and several places of entertainment. 

RIVERSIDE is the station from which to go to Schroon Lake and 
other places in that vicinity. Stage daily, except Sunday, to Chestertown 
(six miles; fare, seventy- five cents); to Brant Lake (twelve miles; fare, 
$1.25); to Schroon Lake landing (seven and one-half miles ; fare, $1.00). 
Steamer on Schroon Lake, 75 cents. 

Those traveling to Schroon Lake are carried by a four-horse 
coach that is more picturesque than comfortable. The road is one of the 
excellent new state highways. On the outward trip the stage stops for 
dinner at the hotel at Pottersville. Some carry a picnic lunch. 

Schroon Lake has the same kind of beauty as the region through 
which it is reached. The heights around have wooded slopes, with cleared 
and cultivated spaces. Beyond these the summits of higher mountains can 
be seen. The peak of Marcy is faintly visible. Going up the lake the 
steamer stops in succession at Watch Rock Hotel (Address, Adirondack), 
Taylor House (Address, Taylor's-on-Schroon), and Grove Point House 
(Address, Schroon Lake). The largest hotel at Schroon Lake village is 
the Leland House. The Ondawa House ($2 a day) furnishes good meals. 
Schroon Lake is an accessible, popular, and cosmopolitan resort. It is about 
nine miles long and one-half to two miles wide. Elevation, eight hundred 
and six feet. Stage daily, except Sunday, to Ticonderoga by way of Para- 
dox Lake (fare, $1.50). 

Chestertown is a village in a farming community. The Chester 
House is one of its hotels. Visitors to Brant Lake can be cared for at 
The Palisades and the Pebloe Hotel (address, Brant Lake). 

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From NORTH CREEK two roads lead into the heart of the 
mountains. Stage daily, except Sunday, to Indian Lake village (eighteen 
miles; fare, $1.25 — from Indian Lake village to Indian Lake, five miles; 
fare, fifty cents); to Blue Mt. Lake (twenty-nine miles; fare, $2). Stage, 
from North Creek daily, except Sunday, to Minerva, (eight and one-half 
miles ; fare, seventy-five cents) ; Minerva to Aiden Lair (eight miles ; fare, 
fifty cents); Minerva to Newcomb (twenty-seven miles ; fare, SI. 25). 

The region around Indian Lake is visited by those who are in search 
of the untamed wilderness. The lake, which a dam has caused to overflow, 
is now about ten miles in length. For persons who like to "rough it," 
there is here a chance for good hunting and fishing, along with seclusion 
and relaxation. There are hotels and boarding houses with prices to cor- 
respond to the varied quality of the accommodations. 

The road to Newcomb passes through country that has been 
settled more or less for a good many years. Much of the way things have 
a decrepit air. There are places not without attraction, however, where 
one desiring to rest and recuperate can get board for $5 a week and up- 
ward. Between Aiden Lair and Newcomb a road branches off to the preserve 
of the Tahawus Club, which holds the game privileges on ninety thousand 
acres belonging to the company that once conducted iron-working opera- 
tions in the region about the "Deserted Village" of Adirondack. This 
tract reaches to Upper Ausable Lake and Lake Colden. See pages 75 
and 76. 



Camt Life 



By pcrmissioji of the Lake George Mirror 




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LAKE GEORGE 




Tnii Naukows, I>aki-; (Ikokc.k Hv pcriiiission of tin- Lake George Mirror 

The scenery of Lake George has a peculiar and characteristic charm. 
Its beauty is exquisite and refined. The mountains come close to the margin 
of the water, and the jutting headlands and many islands so break the view 
that a constantly changing scene meets the eye of the traveler. The grace- 
ful outlines of the various features of the landscape and the play of har- 
monious colors on lake and mountain side blend in a scene fair and en- 
chanting. The scenery of this lake is often compared to that of the Scottish 
Highlands, which it strongly resembles. The lake is thirty-two miles long 
and one to four miles wide. It contains over one hundred islands. 

The social life of Lake George is particularly enjoyable. It is character- 
ized by both exclusiveness and sociability. Young people find the gaiety attrac- 
tive. Outdoor sports, especially those of the water, are much indulged in. 

The name of Lake George is associated with important historic events. From a time 
before these it appears through a haze of fascinating legend and tradition. Father Jogues, a 
Jesuit missionary who suffered incredible hardships and finally martyrdom among the Indians, 
visited this place in 1 646. He arrived at the lake on the feflival of Corpus Christi, in commemo- 
ration of which he named it Lac St. Sacrement, Lake of the Blessed Sacrament. But this 
name, like "Honcon" used by James Femmore Cooper, has been supplanted by the ap- 
pellation bestowed by Sir William Johnson in honor of George 11, in 1755. In that same 
year General Johnson won a memorable victory over Baron Dieskau in the Battle of Lake 
George. In 1757 General Johnson was besieged by 8,000 French and Indians under 
General Montcalm at Fort William Henry, which he had erected near the head of the lake. 
The fort was forced to capitulate, and many of those who surrendered were massacred by 
the Indians, whom Montcalm was powerless to control. 

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FORT WILLIAM HENRY 
HOTEL 



AT THE HEAD OF LAKE GEORGE. THE BEAUTIFUL. 
THE SOUTHERN PORTAL OF THE ADIRONDACKS. 



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One of the daintier and mo^ satisfactory 
of all the fine hotels of the northern sum- 
mer-resort region. 

Rehabilitated last season and now under 
the same general management as the 
Hotel Champlain on Lake Champlain. 

Appointments and service of the be^ 
modern type. All outdoor sports and 
attractions. New state road along the 
shore of Lake George. Well equipped 
new garage. Driving, motor boating, 
fishing, etc. 



J. F. WILSON, Manager, 243 Fifth Avenue, New York City 

After July IS, Fort William Henry Hotel, Lake George, New York 



/« writing to advertisers please mentio7i this book. 

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The Algonquin 

C Located amid the exquisite surroundings 
of the choicest scenery on Lake George. 
In front lies Bolton Bay fringed by islands, 
beyond which loom the mountains two 
thousand feet above the lake. ^ Ng Ng Ng 




A REFINED HOME-LIKE RESORT 

CThe Algonquin provides delight- 
ful opportunities for amusement 
and recreation. Boating is peculiar- 
ly attractive here. Bathing, fishing, 
tramping, and tennis are among the 
other popular enjoyments. ^ ^ 

Send for Ilhistrated Booklet. 



E. G. PENFIELD, 

BOLTON-ON-LAKE GEORGE, 
NEW YORK 



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The Fort William Henry Hotel at the head (southern end) 
of the lake occupies the site of Fort William Henry. Its surroundings are 
full of historic interest, and the scenery is peculiarly attractive. An excep- 
tionally spacious veranda commands the outlook toward the Narrows eight 
miles away. This hotel was recently reconstructed at large outlay and is a 
thoroughly well appointed house of the first class. It is conducted by the 
Delaware & Hudson Company and is kept up to the highest standard. 
The interior finish is tasteful; the furnishings are carefully selected with a 
view to the comfort of the guests. A fine lawn sweeps down from the 
hotel to the lake. This hotel is immediately accessible by both boat and 
rail. It is an official hotel of the Automobile Club of America. 

The Algonquin is one of the less pretentious but enjoyable resorts 
of Lake George. It is located near Bolton, which is the center of much that 
is most attractive in the social life as well as of the scenery of the lake. Ken- 
sett's paintings, now in the Corcoran Art Gallery, were painted here. The 
Algonquin is a place of refined enjoyment and freedom from constraint. 
It stands on a shaded lawn, and there is a fine grove close by. It has a broad 
veranda ; the rooms are of good size and adequately furnished. There is 
a dark room for the use of amateur photographers. There are good sani- 
tary arrangements, including porcelain tubs and spray baths. The house is 
supplied with spring water. Rates $2 to $3 a day; $12 to $17 a week. 



Steamer on Lake Geok<;e 



By permission of the Lake George Mirror 




WHERE TO GO IN THE ADIRONDACKS 

LAKE CHAMPLAIN 

Lake Champlain has a combination of attractions which no other place 
in America offers. For yachting the conditions are perfect. The lake is 
one hundred and twenty miles long, with a coast line broken by inviting 
bays. One may cruise here for weeks continually visiting new scenes. The 
lake has the advantages of the seacoast without its drawbacks. There is 
no tide to reckon with, and the mountains are at such a distance that storms 
do not fall on the lake without warning. In the vicinity of Burlington there 
is a thirty-mile course the whole of which can be seen at one view. 

The scenery has a rare combination of attractive features. There is a 
wide sweep of water and hill and sky. The azure surface of the lake, 
resplendent in the sun and enlivened by sailboats and other craft, is a 
striking scene. Along the shores are stretches of green fields, cool woods, 
and sheltered coves. On the west the Adirondacks are the background 
of the picture. On the east the outlines of the Green Mts. melt in the soft 
haze of the distant horizon. 

The railroad ride along the shore of Lake Champlain is one of unusual 
variety of scenic interest. The road follows the winding shore, often pass- 
ing around curves where the locomotive can be seen by passengers in the 
rear coaches. On the one hand there is a wide outlook over the lake, 
on the other rocky ledges through which a path has been cleaved for the 
iron road, and again wooded hillsides and well tilled meadows. 

The historic associations of Lake Champlain add the final touch that gives it character 
and peculiar interest, its discovery by white men belongs to the period of the earhest set- 
tlement on the western hemisphere. Later some of the most dramatic events in American 
history were enacted on its shores. In 1609 Samuel de Champlain coming up the Richelieu 
River saw the lake for the first time that it was ever beheld by European eyes. His 
Algonquin followers fell in with a party of Mohawks, and the blood shed there was expi- 
ated only by more than a hundred years of the frightful atrocities of Indian warfare. Mo- 
hawk Rock near Burlington marked the boundary hne between the Algonquins and 
the Mohawks. 

Fort Ticonderoga was located at a point which the Indians called Che-on-de-ro-ga, a 
name with some reference to the rapids in the outlet of Lake George, whose music can be 
heard from this point. The French preserved the poetry of the suggestion in the name 
Fort Carillon, "The Chimes", which they gave the fortification that they erected here in 
1755. In 1758 the English under General Abercrombie lost 2,000 men in a tragically un- 
successful attempt to capture it. In 1 759 General Amherst expelled the French. In 1 775 
Ticonderoga was taken from the English in the dramatic exploit of Ethan Allen, and the 
next day Crown Point (built by the English near the sight of an earlier French fort) was 
also taken by the Americans. The battle of Plattsburg was also a memorable land and 
naval victory of the American side in the war of 1812. The ter-centenary of the discovery 
of Lake Champlain will be celebrated July 4-10, 1909. The French and English will 
participate. 

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DELAW^ARE AND HUDSON RAILROAD 
CHAMPLAIN DIVISION 

The traveler on the way north to LAKE GEORGE goes by way 
of Saratoga Springs and Fort Edward. On Lake George the two steam- 
ers, Horicon and Sagamore, each make the round trip between Lake 
George Landing and Baldwin daily. 

LAKE CHAMPLAIN is reached by rail at Whitehall; thence 
the road follows the lake (here comparatively narrow) until Fort Xicon- 
deroga station is reached, where connections are made for Lake George, 
about five miles distant. The crumbling ruins of the fort, reminiscent of 
heroic struggle and achievement, will appeal to every one who feels a thrill 
at the sight of such memorials of the historic past. 

From this point one may proceed north by train or, in a more leisurely 
fashion, on the steamer 'XJezmont of the Champlain Transportation Com- 
pany, which makes the trip to Plattsburg in a half day, stopping at the most 
important points on both sides of the lake. Larrabee's Point, on the 
eastern shore of the lake, furnishes attractions to summer visitors. 

Six miles north of Crown Point station, on a point which projects 
far into the lake, are the ruins of Fort Crown Point and vestiges of the 
earlier Fort St. Frederick of the French. The steamer lands at this point. 
There is a pavilion for the use of picnic parties. About two miles distant 
is the little village of Port Henry. 

At one of the most delightful spots is Westport. The location is 
ideal. The setting is idyllic and the outlook charming. The village ^ands 
on the rising slope of ground which sweeps up from the shore of North 
West Bay. It is an exceptionally healthful locality. The water supply 
comes from a spring that gushes from the depths of the rock high up on a 
mountain side at the rate of a million gallons a day. The village has a fine 
library, where entertainments are given during the summer. There are ex- 
cellent roads providing an interesting variety of rides and drives. This is 
the starting point for the excursion described on pages 70 to 77. 

Westport Inn can be unqualifiedly recommended. It stands in 
wide, well kept grounds, with majestic elms and stretches of green lawn 
sweeping down to the gravelly beach. The house is a tasteful structure of 
colonial design. It is of substantial construction and has a modern air. In- 
side it is bright, airy, and pleasant. The furnishings are comfortable and 
appropriate. The whole place has an air of distinction and refined hospi- 
tality. In the supply of material comforts nothing is overdone, but the 
service is eminently satisfactory. The management is courteous and atten- 
tive. Cultivated people find the surroundings and society congenial. 

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Westport Inn 

With superb outlook over Lake Champlain and at the Eastern 
Gateway of the Adirondacks. 

The unexcelled yachting, enjoyable rides and drives, the ex- 
cellent golf links and tennis courts, and the opportunities for fish- 
ing and bathing furnish the guests of Westport Inn the most com- 
plete diversity of recreation, and for each kind of sport the 
facilities are unsurpassed. 

Westport is only eight hours from New York via the Delaware 
& Hudson. Lake Champlain steamers land four times daily. 
Two small Reamers may be chartered for special excursions. 

Write for illustrated booklet. 



H. P. SMITH, Manager 
WESTPORT, N.Y. 



In ivriiing to advertisers please mention this book 

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HOTEL CHAMPLAIN 

AT THE PORTAL OF THE ADIRONDACKS 

"TPHIS superb summer hotel on Bluff Point, Lake Cliamplain, three miles south 
of Plattsburg, N.Y., is a great social center and observatory of fashionable 
life as well as one of the attractions of an Adirondack tour. Passengers desiring 
to change from rail to lake steamer or vice versa will find Hotel Cliamplain the 
most convenient transfer point. Here the world is fairest, the views vast and 
magnificent, the attractions multitudinous — a woodland park of 450 acres, a three- 
mile green drive eighteen-hole golf links, and all metropolitan luxuries. ^ ^ 
For plan of rooms, rates, etc.. address ROBERT MURRAY, Manai.ek, 
243 Fiftli Avenue: after July 1st, Hotel (^hamplain, Clinton County, N.Y. 




Gkeen Dhive, HoiFi. Cha.mi'I.ain Park 



III '.I'rititig to advertisers please tnention this book- 

1871 



WHERE TO GO IN THE ADIRONDACKS 

From Port Kent an electric railroad runs to Keeseville, passing 
Ausable Chasm. This is an impressive rocky gorge in the Ausable 
River. It is about two miles in length. Rainbow Falls at its beginning are some 
seventy feet high, and here the river is over a hundred feet wide. The Basin 
marks the end of the chasm, here only twelve feet wide. Part of the way the 
water rushes through the channel with great force, but the trip is made with 
safety in boats managed by experienced guides. The walls of the gorge show 
the effect of erosion, but some great disruptive force in a past geologic age 
probably gave form to the main features. The walls are picturesquely rent 
and broken and in places covered with vegetation. Hotel Ausable Chasm ; 
The Cedars. Address, Ausable Chasm. 

Bluff Point is the Nation of the Hotel Champlain, one of 
the foremost hotels of all this region. The Nation is on the hotel grounds. 
These form an immense park in which are a forest, lawns, walks, golf 
course, and on the margin of the lake, a superb beach admirably adapted 
to bathing. The hotel stands on a high promontory overlooking Lake 
Champlain. It is an immense four-story structure of attractive design and 
substantial construction. Deep encircling verandas provide comfort and 
give a delightful outlook upon the scenery of the distant mountains and lake 
with its varied life. Owing to the elevation the air is clear, there is an ex- 
cellent water supply, and the sanitary arrangements are perfect. The hotel 
is run by the Delaware & Hudson Company and is maintained on a plane 
of exceptional excellence. This is an official hotel of the Automobile Club 
of America. Address, Hotel Champlain. 

Cliff Haven is the station of the Catholic Summer School of 
America. 

Plattsburg, a pleasant village of 8,000 inhabitants, is next reached. 
It is named after Zephaniah Piatt, who with others received a grant of land 
here in 1 784. It is located on Cumberland Bay, where the Battle of 
Plattsburg was fought in 1 8 1 4. A garrison of United States troops is now 
regularly stationed at the government barracks about a mile south of the 
village. Plattsburg is an enterprising place, well kept, busy, and with evi- 
dence of public spirit. It is the seat of a state normal school. 

One of the names long and honorably associated with this locality in the 
minds of the traveling public is that of the Fouquet House. It has a 
well established and enviable reputation. It is situated on high ground 
with plenty of air and a delightful view of the lake. It is a dignified three 
and one-half story structure. The rooms are high and large. The table is 
good. This is an attractive place to sojourn without losing ready con- 
nection with other places. The hotel is only a short distance from the rail- 
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IFOUQUET house! 

j R.J. CLARK, PLATTSBURG, NEW YORK | 
.j. _. ._ . .+ 

road station and is therefore convenient for transient visitors. Rates $3 a 
day and upward; terms by the week on application. 

LAKE PLACID DIVISION 

The line to Lake Placid and that to Montreal diverge at Bluff 
Point. The Lake Champlain Division goes first through a country that 
is somewhat cultivated, but in the main is sparsely wooded and of desolate 
appearance, until Dannemora has been passed. Chazy Lake and 
Upper Chateaugay Lake are in attractive surroundings. The Dela- 
ware & Hudson Company has camp sites for sale, and permission will be 
granted to camp in certain places on application to the Company. Lyon Moun- 
tain is the station of Upper Chateaugay Lake. Here are Ralph's and other 
hotels. A steamer runs twelve miles through this lake and Lower Chateau- 
gay Lake (fare, 75 cents). The Lower Lake can be reached by an eight 
mile drive from Chateaugay on the Rutland Railroad. Near that station is 
Chateaugay Chasm. The railroad proceeds from Lyon Mt. to Loon Lake, 
in regard to which and other stations on the line of this road, see page 52 

and following. 

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NE>V YORK CENTRAL LINES 
ST. LAWRENCE DIVISION 

From CARTHAGE one may go to Lake Bonaparte, inter- 
esting as the residence of Joseph Bonaparte, ex-king of Naples, during his 
exile in America. There is a hotel. The New Hermitage (address. Lake 
Bonaparte). Farther on, from Oswegatchie station, the traveler reaches 
Star Lake, a sheet of water of very attractive appearance, though not 
deeply wooded. Star Lake Inn (address, Oswegatchie). Wanakena, on 
the Inlet of Cranberry Lake, is reached by rail via Benson Mines. Hotel 
Wanakena (address, Wanakena). 

From this point a steamer carries passengers to points on Cranberry 
Lake. The name of the lake gives no inkling to its real character. It 
suggests low, swampy marsh lands, whereas the reality presents thickly 
wooded shores flanked by impressive mountains. Time was when the little 
red berry was found there, but its beds have long since been flooded into 
oblivion by the state dam at the head of the outlet. The result was a deep 
border of deadwood, which enhanced rather than detracted from the pe- 
culiar wild, wierd beauty of the place. Now that has for the most part 
fallen, or been cleared away, and all that remains of that watery labyrinth is 
here and there a choked up flow. Four miles from the lake is the track of 
the great Windfall of 1845, one-half mile wide, sweeping across the state to 
Lake George, still conspicuous in its second growth of scrub pine and shim- 
mering poplar. Cranberry Lake Inn (address, Cranberry Lake) ; Nunn's 
Inn (address, Wanakena). 

Cranberry Lake can also be reached by a forty-mile drive from 
Canton. On the road are the preserves of the Stillwater Club and the 
Deerlick Rapids Club. Canton is a pleasant college town, the seat of St. 
Lawrence University. It is situated on the Grass River. Rushton's 
"Indian Girl" canoes are manufactured there. Summer visitors can secure 
board at the Hodskin House and the American House, also in private fam- 
ilies where students board at other seasons. 

From Potsdam one may reach the following places, which have 
some attractiveness and afford entertainment at comparatively cheap rates: 

Sylvan Falls ( 1 7 miles) ; Sylvan Falls Hotel (address, Parishville). 

Joe Indian Pond (22 miles) ; Pinehurst Hotel (address, Parishville). 

Hollywood (30 miles); Hollywood Hotel (address, Hollywood). 

The last named place can also be reached from Piercefield. See 
page 43. 

Massena Springs has a sulphur spring with curative properties. 

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WHERE TO GO IN THE ADIRONDACKS 

AUTOMOBILE ROUTES 

The entrances to the Great Wilderness were formerly stage routes, 
in fact some of them are to-day ; but during the past few years important 
changes have taken place. Railroads encircle and cross the region, branch- 
ing to reach famous hostelries or important industrial centers. The many 
water highways that are mysteriously woven throughout the woods will al- 
ways be popular with the canoeist. In addition to these the automobile is 
fa^ becoming a popular means of travel. 

It may be surprising to the uninitiated to know that highways over 
which cars run with perfect ease and safety reach practically every point 
commonly visited by tourists, and that though, of course, there are some 
steep hills to climb, the roadbed is as a rule better than that of the average 
country highway. The American Automobile Association and enterprising 
residents and summer visitors have contributed to the improvement of their 
condition. Some attractive trips are given below. This list does not make 
specific mention of all the stretches of good road in the Adirondacks, but 
before venturing on any route not named here, the automobili^ should in- 
vestigate carefully the character of the road in question and make sure of the 
reliability of his information. 

1. Saratoga Springs to Schroon Lake. From Saratoga 

Springs to Lake George, via Wilton and Glens Falls, is an interesting run. 
[There is a fine road along the west shore of the lake, from Lake George 
to Bolton Landing.] Proceed from Lake George to Warrensburg, thence to 
Chestertown, and on arriving at Schroon Lake, follow the western shore of 
the lake by an excellent road to Schroon Lake village. Distance, sixty-five 
miles. From here connections may be made with Trip Number 2 at Ticon- 
deroga, with Number 3 at Schroon River, and with Number 4 at 
Elizabethtown. 

2. Ticonderoga to Plattsburg. From Ticonderoga follow 
Lake Champlain by a hilly but fairly good road to Crown Point and Port 
Henry. At Westport connection is made with Number 4. At Wills- 
boro leave the lake for Ausable Chasm. From there go to Port Kent and 
again take the lake road, which is in excellent condition all the way to 
Plattsburg. DiSance, sixty-five miles. 

3. Port Henry to Long Lake. This trip leads over a well 
beaten road, for it has long been a stage route. Port Henry to North 
Hudson and Schroon River, thence by Blueridge and Boreas River to 

* The Publisher acknowledges special obligation to Mr. E. G. Blankman, Publisher of 
Maps. 

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Tahawus. [Here a side trip over a comparatively nevs^ road to Hender- 
son Lake will repay the effort. This place is surrounded by the highest 
peaks of the Adirondacks. A trail leads to the top of Marcy.] From 
Tahawus to the thriving village of Newcomb, thence to Long Lake. Dis- 
tance, fifty-eight miles. One can cross the lake and go on to Long Lake 
West. 

4. Westport to Lake Placid. A touring car will find 

plenty of work to make this trip. The road is excellent, and the scenery is 
superb, but the climbs are numerous and steep. From Elizabethtown to 
Keene one needs a careful chauffeur. Beyond Keene there is some sand, 
and the road goes up, up. Aside from these difficulties, the trip is one of 
the mo^ attractive in the Adirondacks. For detailed description see pages 
70 to 77. Di^ance, thirty-five miles. 

5. Port Kent to Keene Valley. One of the mo^ picturesque 

trips laid down on the map. Ausable Chasm is the first stopping place. On 
the north bank of the Ausable River are Keeseville, Clintonville, and Au- 
sable Forks. The ascent thence is one of constant surprises and pleasure. 
Jay, Upper Jay, and Keene are hamlets nestling between the river and the 
mountains and affording entertainment to summer visitors. Distance, thirty- 
two miles. 

6. Plattsburg to Loon Lake. This route follows up the Saranac 
River through the villages of Cadyville, Saranac, and Redford, over an open 
country to Clayburg, thence through second growth timber to one of the 
prettiest sheets of water to be found — Loon Lake. The road is good and 
the scenery fine. Distance, fifty-four miles. From here, via Onchiota, it is 
possible to connect with Trips Numbers 7 and 8. 

7. Lake Placid to Paul Smith's. From Lake Placid to Ray 

Brook, to Saranac Lake, to Harrietstown, to Gabriels, to Paul Smith's. A 
thoroughly good road and much frequented. Distance, thirty-five miles. 

8. From Paul Smith's to Ogdensburg. From Paul 

Smith's, to McCollom's, to Meacham Lake, a sheet of water worth seeing. 
[From here one may go past Lake Duane, a very attractive place ; Moun- 
tain Pond, known as the home of big trout ; and Lake Titus to Malone. 
From this place there are moderately good highways east to Plattsburg and 
west to Ogdensburg.] The "Hopkinton and Port Kent Turnpike, " an old 
^age route and good road runs past Everton to St. Regis Falls, thence to 
Nicholville and Hopkinton. From here one may go to Potsdam over a 
road fairly good but sandy in parts, thence to Canton and so to Ogdens- 
burg by a new state highway partly completed and to be finished in 1 909. 
Di^ance, eighty-five miles. 

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9. Ogdensburg to Upper Saranac Lake. Go from Ogdens- 

burg through Canton to Potsdam; thence follow up the Raquette River to 
Hannawa Falls, an important water power. Expecting some heavy sand, 
proceed via Colton and South Colton, Hollywood, and Sevey to Gale. 
After pausing for a sight of Massawepie Lake, continue to Piercefield and 
Tupper Lake over a stretch that is charming on account not only of the 
condition of the road, but the mountain scenery. There is an admirable 
road from Tupper Lake to Wawbeek (see page 43), where the way turns 
aside to Hiawatha Lodge and Saranac Club. The road from Wawbeek to 
Saranac Inn runs through virgin forest along the shore of Upper Saranac 
Lake. The total distance from Ogdensburg is about ninety-five miles. 
From Saranac Inn there is an exceptionally fine road via Lake Clear to 
Paul Smith's, passing near Upper St. Regis Lake and its elaborate camps. 
Horseback riders are common in the vicinity of the latter. 

10. Northville to Blue Mountain Lake. Northville is a 

distributing center for a large mountain territory. The road follows the 
shore of Sacandaga River to Wells and is moderately level and good. 
From Wells to Speculator the ascent is very steep, and in places the road- 
bed is narrow. The scenery is wild and rugged, and the views will repay 
the wear and tear of a good machine ; a poor one has no business here. 
From Speculator to Indian Lake the road in places is not very good, 
though passable. The scenery is decidedly wild and mountainous. At 
Jessup's River, Mason Lake, and Lewey Lake are satisfactory stopping 
places with plain but substantial bills of fare. From Indian Lake, a village 
with modern hotels, to Blue Mountain Lake the road is good. Distance, 
twenty-nine miles. 

IL Utica to Lake Pleasant. Go to Prospect and follow up 

the West Canada Creek, north side, to Nobleboro ; cross the river to 
Morehouseville and go to Piseco and the head of Piseco Lake, thence to 
Rudeston and Lake Pleasant, the county seat of Hamilton County. This 
route is one of the beS. From Hoffmeisters to Lake Pleasant the view 
is grand. The road is good. Di^ance, sixty-five miles. 

12. Boonville to Eagle Bay. Go to Moose River, thence to 
Fulton chain. Old Forge, and up the north side of the chain of lakes to 
Eagle Bay; an excellent road. Di^ance, thirty miles. 



For a detailed description of Automobile Trips 
throiiKh the woods, the reader should consult 
the latest "Map of the Adirondacks" by E. G. 
Blankman, of Canton, N.Y.. whose publication will show all the roads, their condition, 
distances, etc. It is issued in pocket form and retails at $1.00 each. ^ ^ ^ ^ 

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INDEX 



HOTELS Page 

Algonquin 82 

Belmont 59, 63 

Blue Mountain 35 

Cumberland 96 

Eagle Bay 28 

Fort William Henry 8 1 

Fouquet 88 

Glenmore 38 

Grand View 59, 61 

Hiawatha Lodge 44 

Hotel Champjain 88 

Lakeside Inn 59, 63 

Lake View Lodge 38 

Paul Smith's 50 

Ruisseaumont. 57, 64 

Saranac Inn 48 

Seventh Lake 30 

Stevens 56, 62 

The Pines 58, 63 

Undercliff 58, 65 

Westport Inn ' 85 

PLACES Page 

Ausable Chasm 88 

Big Moose 37 

Bluff Point 88 

Canton 90 

Chestertown 78 

Childwold 43 

Clearwater 28 

Elizabethtown 70 

Fort Ticonderoga 85 

Fulton Chain 26 

Hadley 78 

Keene Center 7 1 

Keene Valley 72 

Lake Clear Junction 50 

Lake Placid 60 



Long Lake West 

North Creek 

Old Forge 

Plattsburg 

Riverside 

Saranac Inn 

Saranac Lake 

The Glen 

Tupper Lake Junction 

Westport 

LAKES 

Avalanche 

Blue Mountain 

Bonaparte 

Brant 

Cascade 

Champlain 

Chazy 

Cranberry 

Fourth 

Fulton Chain 

George 

Indian 

Long 

Loon 

Lower Ausable 

Lower Saranac 

Luzerne 

Mirror 

Placid 

Rambow 

Raquette 

Schroon 

Seventh 

Star 

Upper Ausable 

Upper Chateaugay 

Upper Saranac 



40 
79 
26 
88 
78 
46 
52 
78 
43 
85 



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76 

34 
90 
78 
75 
84 
89 
90 
28 
27 
80, 85 
79 
33 
52 
74 
52 
78 
54 
54 
52 
32 
78 
30 
90 
75 
89 
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SPRING BORN AND 
MOUNTAIN BOUND 

Unquestionably the "Queen of Atiterican 
Lakes. ' ' 

For Information as 
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A case was ordered of Mr. H. S. Jenner, general agent, 
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